Open the door to more of the same? The development of interest group representation at the WTO

World Trade Review

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 447-472

  Hanegraaff, Marcel ^a   Beyers, Jan ^a   Braun, Caelesta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

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EID: 85011436453     PISSN: 14747456     EISSN: 14753138     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1474745611000310     Document Type: Review

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