Is politics power or policy oriented? A comparative analysis of dynamic access models in policy networksFootnote*

The contribution of the first author was partly made while he was a Research Fellow at The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS). We thank Reinier Van Oosten for his contribution to the formulation of the first versions of the model and his advise on their implementation; Frans Wasseur for his assistance in the analysis of the results; Jannie Schonewille for the AVEBE data. We thank Jaco Berveling, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Bob Lieshout and Don Westerheijden for their comments on earlier formulations of the model.

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