Linking Agenda Setting to Coordination Structures: Bureaucratic Politics inside the European Commission

Journal of European Integration

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 425-441

  Hartlapp, Miriam ^a   Metz, Julia ^a   Rauh, Christian ^a  

^a WZB BERLIN SOCIAL SCIENCE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

bureaucratic politics; European Commission; lead DG; Secretariat General

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878641639     PISSN: 07036337     EISSN: 14772280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2012.703663     Document Type: Article

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