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

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