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This article has been published in Tidsskrift for samfunnsforning Vol. 47, No.2, pp. 259-274

This paper explores how and to what extent it is possible to contribute to the democratisation of the European political order by means of modifying the ways in which taxes are deliberated upon, decided and collected in the old continent. In the first part, the author elucidates the particular...