Decision-making in the EU council after the first eastern enlargement: The relevance of the empirical findings for the voting rules

Institutional Design and Voting Power in the European Union

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 201-211

  Plechanovová, Běla ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

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