The United States as outlier: Economic and institutional challenges to US climate policy

Global Commons Domestic Decisions: The Comparative Politics of Climate Change

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 67-103

  Harrison, Kathryn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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