The 2003 Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy: Against all Odds or Rational Explanations?

Journal of European Integration

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 203-223

  Nedergaard, Peter ^a  

^a Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

Agricultural reform; CAP; government failures; political asymmetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 85045163860     PISSN: 07036337     EISSN: 14772280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07036330600785749     Document Type: Article

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