In a world of growing wealth concentration and economic inequality, who truly holds the power? Democracy Challenged brings together an international and interdisciplinary team of researchers from political science, economics, data science and law to address this question.
This ERC-funded project delves into the complexities of multi-jurisdictional corporate tax avoidance, uncovering key strategies, players, and locations involved in global profit-shifting. Our goal is to show how legal-accounting power undermines democracy, contributing to rising wealth inequality and shifting power dynamics.
Our research centers on a deep analysis of legal-technical elites, whose expertise is crucial in shaping the structures of wealth inequality. Additionally, we map major multi-jurisdictional corporate groups to illuminate their profit-shifting strategies and financial structures.
Latest blog posts
- How the Fall in Corporate Tax Supercharged Wealth — and Hollowed Out Democracy
- Winners Take All: How Corporate Tax Cuts Weakened the Anchor of the Top 0.001%
- Ireland’s GDP Is a Mirage — Household Living Standards Tell the Real Story
- When Law Becomes Wealth: Why Political Science Must Take Legal-Accounting Power Seriously
- Winner Takes All: How Corporate Tax Policy is Manufacturing Billionaire Wealth
- Ireland’s Profits Look Extraordinary — But It’s the Balance Sheet, Not the Real Economy, Doing the Work