Conceptualizing Cooperation: Coordination and Concertation as Two Logics of Collective Action

Comparative Political Studies

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 555-585

  Ornston, Darius ^a   Schulze Cleven, Tobias ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

business and politics; economic policy; European politics; political economy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924964676     PISSN: 00104140     EISSN: 15523829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0010414014554690     Document Type: Article

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