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Re‐engineering Legal Opportunity Structures in the European Union? The Starting Line Group and the Politics of the Racial Equality Directive

Rhonda Evans Case and Terri E. Givens

Journal of Common Market Studies, 2010, vol. 48, issue 2, 221-241

Abstract: Using the Racial Equality Directive to test competing explanations concerning the types of actors who seek to liberalize legal opportunity structures, we find that it was pursued by a coalition of societal interests working through European Union institutions that sought reforms intended to facilitate strategic litigation.

Date: 2010
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