After the financial and economic crisis in Europe, a broad consensus has emerged that a stronger fiscal dimension may …

After the financial and economic crisis in Europe, a broad consensus has emerged that a stronger fiscal dimension may …

After the financial and economic crisis in Europe, a broad consensus has emerged that a stronger fiscal dimension may …

the functioning of direct democracy. As a political system it only makes sense if there exists a continuous process and … not if only occasional single questions are brought to a referendum. Then, the relation between direct democracy and the … points that should be observed to safeguard the well-functioning of direct democracy. …

1. Contemporary Democracy and the Prospect for Fiscal Control: Initial thoughts about and Final Reactions to the …. The Prospect for a Liberal Democracy -- Comments. … Democracy in Deficit: The Political Legacy of Lord Keynes, by James M. Buchanan and Richard E. Wagner (New York: Academic Press …

Among the many meanings given to the idea of a European ‘constitution’, perhaps the most widespread relates to the … power the EU obviously lacks on its own. We can call this the ‘metabolic constitution’ of the EU, a term meant to focus our … attention on the capacity of a polity to convert resources into work toward public ends. The EU’s metabolic constitution is …