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Enhancing Political Representation Through the European Economic Constitution? Regressive Politics of Democratic Inclusion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2019

Jussi Jaakkola
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Interrelation between economic and political dimensions of constitutionalism – European market integration and erosion of democratic representation within Member States of the EU – Regulatory externalities between national democracies – European market citizenship and its ramifications for democratically legitimate exercise of the power to tax – Underinclusiveness of domestic democratic process – Political representation beyond the state – European economic constitution as a source of political empowerment and the EU economic freedoms as political rights – The European Court of Justice as a protector of representation – Reinforcing political participation through regulatory competition – European market freedoms enhance representation but at the expense of political equality – Economic freedoms as insufficient means of political empowerment – Improving democratic representation and equality beyond the state requires properly political citizenship instead of mere market rights

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European Constitutional Law Review , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , June 2019 , pp. 194 - 219
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PhD Researcher, Faculty of Law, University of Turku; email: [email protected]. For their useful comments on the earlier versions of this article, the author would like to thank Jan Komárek, Jo Shaw, two anonymous reviewers, all the participants in the 2018 EuConst Colloquium (Amsterdam) and all the participants in the EU Citizenship, Democracy and Fundamental Rights seminar (Turku). The usual disclaimers apply.

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