Resisting transparency: Corruption, legitimacy, and the quality of global environmental policies

Global Environmental Politics

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 9-29

  Bauhr, Monika ^a   Nasiritousi, Naghmeh ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRUPTION; ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE;

EID: 84867432247     PISSN: 15263800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/GLEP_a_00137     Document Type: Article

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