The missing dimension of democracy: Institutional patterns in 25 EU member states between 1997 and 2006

European Union Politics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 335-359

  Vatter, Adrian ^a   Bernauer, Julian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Consensual and majoritarian democracy; Direct democracy; Eastern Europe; EU member states; Patterns of democracy

Indexed keywords

EID: 70249120754     PISSN: 14651165     EISSN: 17412757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1465116509337828     Document Type: Article

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