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Still an Opaque Institution? Explaining Decision-Making in the EU Council Using Newspaper Information: A Reply to Sullivan and Veen

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2013

Torsten J. Selck ,
Şebnem Yardımcı  and
Constanze Kathan
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Government and Opposition , Volume 44 , Issue 4 , 2009 , pp. 463 - 470
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