Status Quo Bias or institutionalisation for reversibility?: The EU's political conditionality, post-accession tendencies and democratic consolidation in Slovakia

Europe - Asia Studies

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 423-454

  Pridham, Geoffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLIANCE; DEMOCRATIC TRANSITION; EUROPEAN UNION; INSTITUTIONAL REFORM;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SLOVAKIA;

EID: 42649096633     PISSN: 09668136     EISSN: 14653427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09668130801948000     Document Type: Article

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