• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Form and function of the opposition in the European Communities
  • Contributor: Zellentin, Gerda
  • Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP), 1967
  • Published in: Government and Opposition, 2 (1967) 3, Seite 416-435
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1111/j.1477-7053.1967.tb01176.x
  • ISSN: 0017-257X; 1477-7053
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  • Description: The experience of the European Communities confirms not only that, as the late Otto Kirchheimer put it, ‘opposition is to be found under one form or another in every political community’; but also that a political community is to be found wherever opposition exists in one form or another. The purpose of this study is to investigate the manner in which opposition forces develop in the European Communities to block or to enhance integration.