Fiscal Recentralization as an Aspiring Autocrat Strategy

• In Event: The Political Economy of Autocracy

Brief Overview

Elected aspiring autocrats employ fiscal recentralization as a tool of executive aggrandizement, with the goal of maximizing their resources and starving the opposition. I examine this cross-nationally in Europe and on the case of Poland under PiS.

Author

• Theodoros Ntounias, University of California-San Diego