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Law, State Power, and Taxation in Islamic History

Cosgel, Metin; Ahmed, Rasha M.; Miceli, Thomas - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2007

's ability to extract a surplus from the citizenry by conferring legitimacy, thereby lowering the cost of tax-collection. It … could also limit power through legal constraints on taxation. We show how changes in legitimacy and legal constraints …

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STATE AND RELIGION OVER TIME

Cosgel, Metin; Miceli, Thomas; Yıldırım, Sadullah; … - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2015

State and religion, two of the oldest institutions known to mankind, have historically had a close relationship with each other, often joining forces to rule populations. Although the tendency towards secularization has hampered this relationship in recent centuries, the state-religion alliance...

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European identity constructions in public debates on wars and military interventions

Biegoń, Dominika - RECON - 2010

Drawing on the classical distinction between community (Gemeinschaft) and society (Gesellschaft) by Tönnies (1963) and the related analytical distinction between strong and weak forms of collective identities, this paper analyses European identity constructions in ‘future-of-Europe’-debates...

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European transformation: A pragmatist approach

Eriksen, Erik Oddvar - RECON - 2010

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The Political Economy of Mass Printing: Legitimacy and Technological Change in the Ottoman Empire

Cosgel, Metin; Miceli, Thomas; Rubin, Jared - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2010

have caused to the ruler’s net revenue by undermining the legitimacy provided by religious authorities. On the other hand … eighteenth century after alternative sources of legitimacy emerged. …

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Representation through Deliberation: The European Case

Eriksen, Erik Oddvar; Fossum, John Erik - RECON - 2011

This paper shows that the main pattern of European democratisation has unfolded along the lines of an EU organised as a multilevel system of representative parliamentary government and not as a system of deliberative governance as the transnationalists propound. But the multilevel EU has...

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Bringing European democracy back in – Or how to read the German Constitutional Court’s Lisbon Treaty ruling

Eriksen, Erik O.; Fossum, John Erik - RECON - 2010

This article critically examines the democratic theory that informs the German Federal Constitutional Court’s Lisbon Treaty ruling. This is needed because the ruling is ambiguous with regard to what democracy for what Union. In order to analyse the ruling we establish three models of what...

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Constitutionalism beyond the state: myth or necessity?

Cohen, Jean L. - RECON - 2010

production of international or global law. Thus questions about the legitimacy of global law and governance arise particularly …

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Contesting EU Legitimacy: The Prominence, Content and Justification of Euroscepticism During 2009 EP Election Campaigns

Wilde, Pieter de; Trenz, Hans-Jörg; Michailidou, Asimina - RECON - 2010

This paper analyses the prominence, content and justifications of Euroscepticism as a form of EU legitimacy … contestation, mediation and formation of public opinion in the public sphere. Our survey delivers original data on EU legitimacy …. Thirdly, we find that a primary concern in EU legitimacy contestation is democracy, especially for those evaluating EU …

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Data Mining and ‘Renegade’ Aircrafts: The States as Agents of a Global Militant Security Governance Network — The German Example

Nickel, Rainer - RECON - 2010

Security governance has changed the way societies organise and control the execution of powers. This contribution will focus on the ’German’ approach, and, inevitably these days, also on the EU approach towards new threats to security, especially with regard to terrorism. The main argument...

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