Democratic dilemmas in EU multilevel governance: Untangling the Gordian knot

European Political Science Review

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 229-247

  Hurrelmann, Achim ^a   Debardeleben, Joan ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

congruence; democracy; European Union; multilevel governance

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011510966     PISSN: 17557739     EISSN: 17557747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1755773909000137     Document Type: Article

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