Exceptional or just well connected? Political entrepreneurs and brokers in policy making

European Political Science Review

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 475-498

  Christopoulos, Dimitris ^a,b   Ingold, Karin ^c,d  

^a MODUL UNIVERSITY VIENNA   (Austria)

^b CEPS/INSTEAD   (Luxembourg)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

policy brokers; policy entrepreneurs; social network analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 85000085045     PISSN: 17557739     EISSN: 17557747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1755773914000277     Document Type: Article

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