The legal and institutional framework of the 2009 European parliament elections in the shadow of the Lisbon treaty

Political Communication in European Parliamentary Elections

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 17-42

  Jones, Clifford A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

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