Comparative Institutional Advantage in the European Sovereign Debt Crisis

Comparative Political Studies

Volumn 47, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 1771-1800

  Johnston, Alison ^a   Hancké, Bob ^b   Pant, Suman ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

corporatism; European debt crisis; European Monetary Union; sectoral wage bargaining

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901668349     PISSN: 00104140     EISSN: 15523829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0010414013516917     Document Type: Article

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