Re-engineering legal opportunity structures in the European Union? The starting line group and the politics of the racial equality directive
Evans Case, Rhonda ; Givens, Terri E.
Journal of Common Market Studies
2010
48
2
March
221-241
equal rights ; EU Directive ; law reform ; racial discrimination
Human rights
English
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"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."
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