Institutional stimulation of deliberative decision-making: Division of labour, deliberative legitimacy and technical regulation in the European single market

Journal of Common Market Studies

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1001-1023

  Gehring, Thomas ^a   Kerler, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

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EID: 54149084964     PISSN: 00219886     EISSN: 14685965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5965.2008.00827.x     Document Type: Article

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