Fiscal Recentralization as an Aspiring Autocrat Strategy in the European Context

• In Event: Populism and the Far Right in Europe

Brief Overview

How do aspiring autocrats deal with elected subnational officials from opposition parties? I show cross-national evidence of a strategy of fiscal recentralization as a tool to reduce subnational contestation, using a synthetic control group design.

Author

• Theodoros Ntounias, University of California, San Diego