The euro crisis has sparked changes in the EU's economic governance framework and a crisis of legitimacy across the union. While the institutional repercussions of the crisis have been studied before, the democratic impact at the national level has received much less attention. This paper aims...

The budgetary politics, regarded as an assembly of state intervention instruments, generated by the forming processes, by taxes and duties, of the budgetary incomes, of budgetary expenses allotment, as well as on ensuring the budgetary equilibriums represent the budgetary politics of the state,...

1: Market System and the Role of Government -- Part I: Budget Background -- 2: Elements of Taxation -- 3: Elements of Government Expenditures -- 4: An Overview of Government Revenues -- Part II: Budget Basics -- 5: Understanding the Budget Process -- 6: Budget Systems, Underlying Structures, and...

In a recent paper in Regional Studies Kevin Morgan argued for the replacement of the Barnett formula with a needsbased formula. However, the case for change is weak, in terms of both defining the problem and advocating a solution, and it fails to recognize the severe conceptual and measurement...

Since the taxation has practically represented a tool by which the state budget is provided, the tergiversation from their payment has become a phenomenon impregnated into the current economy. In this way, a major prejudice to the state budget is brought by the underground or unidentified...

Tools of direct democracy, such as the citizen initiative, are available at both the state and local levels in the United States, yet models of the process typically do not consider these institutions in tandem. In this article, I develop a model of local fiscal policy that incorporates the...

The budget represents the object of different negotiations between the member states and the European Union’s institutions, on the basis of some clear defined rules. In 1988, after a few years of annual negotiations, EU passed to multi-annual “financial perspectives”, or ensemble...