Confronting trade-offs and interactive effects in the choice of policy focus: Specialized versus comprehensive private governance

Regulation and Governance

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 126-148

  Auld, Graeme ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Certification; Environmental governance; Institutional design; Interactive effects; Private governance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895148931     PISSN: 17485983     EISSN: 17485991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rego.12034     Document Type: Article

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