Taxation and democracy in the EU

Journal of European Public Policy

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 58-77

  Ganghof, Steffen ^a   Genschel, Philipp ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corporate taxation; Democratic deficit; EU tax policy; Redistributive policy; Tax competition; Tax harmonization

Indexed keywords

EID: 36549072391     PISSN: 13501763     EISSN: 14664429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13501760701702199     Document Type: Article

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