Measuring the size and scope of the EU interest group population

European Union Politics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 463-476

  Wonka, Arndt ^a   Baumgartner, Frank R ^b   Mahoney, Christine ^c   Berkhout, Joost ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

EU; interest groups; quantitative data set

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956330699     PISSN: 14651165     EISSN: 17412757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1465116510369267     Document Type: Article

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