Dr. Tiziano Zgaga
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I am a political scientist who specializes in European Union integration, Europeanization and differentiated policy implementation, especially in the fiscal realm. My research interests also include comparative fiscal federalism, EU democracy and sovereignism, and corruption. Methodologically, I mainly work with thematic analysis, comparative case studies, causal process tracing, and case-oriented and set-theoretic research methodology.
As of July 2025, I will be the Principal Investigator of the three-year project (2025-2028) “Towards a post-pandemic fiscal union? Differentiated member state governance of EU money: the National Recovery and Resilience Plans” (EUMONEY), financed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Agency) and to be conducted at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute of Political Science at the LMU Munich, Germany.
From 2021 to 2025 I have worked as postdoctoral researcher of the Working Group on Public Administration in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz, Germany. From 2019 to 2023 I have also served as research manager for the Horizon 2020 funded project “EU Differentiation, Dominance, Democracy” in the research unit of the Department of Political Science at Luiss Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy – the same university where I have also been adjunct professor (2020-2023).
On this website, you can find updated information on my curriculum vitae, my publications and my teaching.
"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?"