A Democratic Dilemma of European Power to Tax: Reconstructing the Symbiosis Between Taxation and Democracy Beyond the State?

In Western capitalist societies, the three postwar decades witnessed a strong interconnection between income taxation and democracy. On the one hand, the democratically representative political process constituted a precondition for the legitimacy of taxation. On the other hand, redistributive incom...

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Main Author: Jussi Jaakkola
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2019-07-01
Series:German Law Journal
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Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2071832219000555/type/journal_article