Regions with regionalism? The rescaling of interest groups in six European states

European Journal of Political Research

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 840-857

  Keating, Michael ^a,b   Wilson, Alex ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Decentralisation; Interest groups; Policy communities; Regions; Territory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907868667     PISSN: 03044130     EISSN: 14756765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-6765.12053     Document Type: Article

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