Legitimacy gaps in the world economy: Explaining the sources of the IMF's legitimacy crisis

International Politics

Volumn 44, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 250-268

  Seabrooke, Leonard ^a,b  

^a Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL ECONOMY; IMF; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; POLITICAL RELATIONS;

EID: 33847131374     PISSN: 13845748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.ip.8800187     Document Type: Article

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