Dr. Tiziano Zgaga
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I am a political scientist who specializes in European Union fiscal policymaking and implementation. I work as a postdoctoral researcher of the Working Group on Public Administration in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz.
My research interests include EU integration and Europeanization, differentiated EU policy implementation, comparative fiscal federalism, EU democracy and sovereignism, and corruption. Methodologically, I mainly work with qualitative content analysis, comparative case studies, process tracing, and case-oriented and set-theoretic research methodology.
On this website, you can find updated information on my curriculum vitae, my publications and my teaching.
Book "Reforming the Stability and Growth Pact. The New Fiscal Regulation from the European Union", under contract with Palgrave Macmillan, series "European Administrative Governance" (expected 2025)
PhD dissertation "The fiscal regime of the European Union and its autonomy from the Member States: a comparative federal analysis"
"I am interested in how & why states transfer competence over so-called “core state powers” – specifically, fiscal policy as arguably the quintessence of national sovereignty – to the European Union (EU), and how & why they implement EU fiscal policy domestically. In one sentence: what is the interplay between fiscal integration & fiscal Europeanization?"