With a little help from the state: Interest intermediation in the domestic pre-negotiations of EU legislation

Journal of European Public Policy

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 444-459

  Schneider, Gerald ^a   Finke, Daniel ^b   Baltz, Konstantin ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b Research Institute for Public Administration in Speyer   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Applied bargaining theory; Domestic politics; European Union; Interest intermediation; Model evaluation; Nash bargaining solution (NBS)

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947637137     PISSN: 13501763     EISSN: 14664429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13501760701243814     Document Type: Article

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