Multi-level Democracy: Deliberative or agonistic? the search for appropriate normative standards

Journal of European Integration

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 303-322

  Vink, Edwin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

agonistic democracy; Deliberative supranationalism; EU constitutionalism; European democracy; norm construction

Indexed keywords

EID: 85044807099     PISSN: 07036337     EISSN: 14772280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07036330701442299     Document Type: Article

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