Why did the states in the US agreed on a full-fledged fiscal union early on, equipping the federal government with a vast power to tax? And what can the Europeans learn from this American experience? These questions are explored with commendable clarity in the fascinating book of Tomasz Woźniakowski providing crucial insights not only for scholars but also to policymakers in Europe and elsewhere.
Tomasz P. Woźniakowski is a Doctor of Political and Social Sciences of the European University Institute (Florence), an Assistant Professor (adiunkt) at the Institute of Political Science, University of Wrocław, and a Lecturer at Stanford in Berlin. His research focuses on the political economy of the EU through the lens of comparative federalism. He was awarded the Fulbright-Schuman Fellowship, the first College of Europe-Arenberg European Prize
"Exploring Federal Solutions" for an article eventually published in the Journal of European Public Policy and the Supranational Political Economy Prize for his PhD dissertation. He was a Post-Doctoral Researcher for Leviathan, an ERC-funded project at the Hertie School, Berlin and a visiting fellow at University of
California, Berkeley, LMU Munich and LUISS Rome.