The contest of lobbies and disciplines: Financial politics and regulatory reform

Reaching for a New Deal: Ambitious Governance, Economic Meltdown, and Polarized Politics in Obama's First Two Years

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 139-188

  Carpenter, Daniel ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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