The prevention of deadlock through informal processes of ‘supranationalization’: the case of coreper

Journal of European Integration

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 511-526

  Lempp, Jakob ^a   Altenschmidt, Janko ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

committee governance; Coreper; Council of the European Union; enlargement; informality; institutionalism; socialization; supranationality

Indexed keywords

EID: 85044802793     PISSN: 07036337     EISSN: 14772280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07036330802294813     Document Type: Article

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