A historical institutionalist explanation of the EU's responses to the euro area financial crisis

Journal of European Public Policy

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 219-237

  Verdun, Amy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Copying; critical juncture; Economic and Monetary Union; euro area financial crisis; European financial stability facility; European semester; European stability mechanism; historical institutionalism; layering path dependence; Six Pack; Two Pack

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924509450     PISSN: 13501763     EISSN: 14664429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2014.994023     Document Type: Article

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