Comparing regulatory oversight bodies across the Atlantic: The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the US and the Impact Assessment Board in the EU

Comparative Administrative Law

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 309-335

  Wiener, Jonathan B ^a   Alemanno, Alberto ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

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