Institutional change in regulatory policies: Regulation through independent agencies and the three new institutionalisms

The Politics of Regulation: Institutions and Regulatory Reforms for the Age of Governance

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 67-89

  Gilardi, Fabrizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

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