On Monday, February 17, 2025, at 2:30 PM in Posvar 3415, Dmitrii Kofanov will present “Local Democratization and Public Finance: Lessons from the 1870 Municipal Reform in the Russian Empire.” The talk will explore how subnational democratization shaped fiscal policies and public goods in authoritarian regimes, focusing on the introduction of elected self-governance in Russian cities in the 1870s and 1880s.
Kofanov is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Center for Governance and Markets at the University of Pittsburgh. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at IPERG, University of Barcelona. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research spans comparative politics and historical political economy, with a focus on Russia and Eastern Europe.
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