This article is an attempt to synthetically present and test the main conclusions of the State-as-Leviathan model which was developed in a classical text The Power to Tax. Analytical Foundations of Fiscal Constitution (Buchanan, Brennan 1980). In the first part the main assumptions of the model...

The main purpose of this study is to assess the changing landscape of agricultural protection and taxation patterns in the region. The study is based on the EU-10 sample, plus Turkey, as well as seven countries in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS): Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the...

Since the middle of the 1980s many European countries have reduced the strictness of their employment protection mainly by relaxing it for temporary jobs. These countries are Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. The article explores the...