Twenty years of multi-level governance: 'Where Does It Come From? What Is It? Where Is It Going?'

Journal of European Public Policy

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 817-837

  Stephenson, Paul ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cohesion policy; Europeanization; global governance; implementation; multi level governance; policy networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878536525     PISSN: 13501763     EISSN: 14664429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2013.781818     Document Type: Article

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