Conceptualising democratic associational involvement in EU decision making - Contributions from contemporary political theory

Acta Politica

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 298-319

  Hüller, Thorsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Associations; civil society; democracy; European Union

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950939773     PISSN: 00016810     EISSN: 17411416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/ap.2009.29     Document Type: Article

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