Adelin-Costin DUMITRU

Academic Year:
2024/2025

Field of Study:
Political Science

Research Program:
NEC-AMEROPA

Affiliation:
“Politehnica” National University of Science and Technology, Bucharest

Position:
Assistant Professor

Country:
Romania

Research project: "Leave it to the People". Inheritance Taxation and Open Democracy

This research project aims to defend the idea that determining the right level of inheritance taxation, as well as what should be done with the collected taxes, is a matter that should be decided by the people, reunited in a proper deliberative setting. Wealth inequalities originating in disproportionate bequests is a major source of political inequality, and through this proposal I intend to make a contribution not only to democratic theory, but also to set the ground for future policy reforms.