One Trap, Many Exits, but No Free Lunch: How the Joint-Decision Trap Shapes EU Tax Policy

The EU's Decision Traps: Comparing Policies

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Genschel, Philipp ^a  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Council of ministers; European commission; European court of justice; European union; Joint decision trap; Problem solving capacity; Tax policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880414457     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199596225.003.0004     Document Type: Chapter

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