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The Purse of the Polity. Tax power in the European Union

Menéndez, Agustín José - ARENA - 2005

This paper describes the actual constitutional, legislative and collecting tax powers in the hands of the Union. It proceeds first to unpack the very idea of tax power, and to distinguish its elements. On such a basis, I proceed to consider European norms and practices, and to reconstruct on...

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Human Rights

Matlary, Janne Haaland - ARENA - 2003

, democracy, rule of law and the market economy. This article explores the relationship between legitimacy and legality in this …

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Change and continuity: An institutional approach to institutions of democratic government

Olsen, Johan P. - ARENA - 2008

, some future challenges are suggested. This article has later been published in European Political Science Review (2009), 1 …

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Conceptualising the EU's social constituency

Fossum, John Erik - ARENA - 2004

The EU is often labelled a unique entity. This assertion is more the product of assessments of its institutional character than on the nature of its social constituency, i.e. the structure of demands and expectations that citizens and groups place on the EU. Determining the character of the...

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Deliberation and the problem of democratic legitimacy in the EU: Are working agreements the most that can be expected?

Eriksen, Erik Oddvar - ARENA - 2006

-national legitimacy? The author contends that democracy can only prevail with egalitarian procedures of law making in place through which … discourse modelled on a less demanding concept of democratic legitimacy. The concept of a working agreement is introduced in … order to establish such concept legitimacy as well as to account for the constitutional developments of the EU. …

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The Constitution’s Gift? A deliberative democratic analysis of constitution-making in the European Union

Fossum, John Erik; Menéndez, Agustín José - ARENA - 2005

implications for its democratic legitimacy. In light of recent events, we consider how procedural changes in constitution … step, we consider what contribution constitution-making might make to the handling of the EU’s legitimacy deficit(s). This …

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Neither Constitution, Nor Treaty

Menéndez, Agustín José - ARENA - 2005

The Constitutional Treaty of the European Union cannot be said to be a Constitution in the same sense that the term is generally used in most European countries. It is not a Constitution in the same sense that the German, Italian or Czech constitutions. This is mainly so because neither the...

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