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political economy, growth strategies, welfare states, female work, social investment, Central and Eastern Europe, South East Europe

Biography

I am Assistant Professor in Economic Policy and Development at the Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade where I was previously a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow. I am also a research associate at the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies (LIEPP) – Sciences Po, Paris. I hold a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). During 2022, I was a Wayne Vuchinich Fellow at Stanford University in California. I am the Vice President of the European Association for Comparative Economic Studies (EACES) since September 2022. My main research area is the political economy of globalisation and socio-economic development in the post-socialist semi-periphery, with a focus on gender, inequalities, welfare state reforms, and most recently small and medium enterprises. I have published in Social Politics, Europe-Asia Studies, Stato e Mercato, and contributed to notable academic volumes and handbooks, including those published by the OUP. My work received the Early Career Researcher Award from SASE, best PhD thesis award from EACES, and LSE Research on Southeast Europe best paper award. My secondary research area is on epistemic justice and non-hegemonic knowledge production.

Activities

Employment (5)

University of Belgrade: Belgrade, RS

2023-05-01 to present | Assistant Professor (Faculty of Economics)
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Sciences Po: Paris, FR

2018-10 to present | Associate Researcher (Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies (LIEPP))
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University of Belgrade: Belgrade, RS

2020-09-01 to 2022-11-30 | Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow (Faculty of Economics)
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Stanford University: Stanford, California, US

2022-01 to 2022-04 | Wayne Vuchinich Fellow (CREEES - Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies,)
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Sciences Po : Paris, FR

2016-10 to 2018-10 | Post-Doctoral Researcher (LIEPP)
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Education and qualifications (3)

London School of Economics and Political Science: London, London, GB

2011-09 to 2015-12 | PhD (European Institute)
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London School of Economics and Political Science: London, GB

2004-09 to 2005-09 | MSc Environment and Development (International Development)
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City University of London Bayes Business School: London, London, GB

2001-09 to 2004-07 | BSc Management & Systems
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Professional activities (7)

EACES - European Association for Comparative Economic Studies: Regensburg, DE

2019-09 to present | Member of the Executive Board
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Sciences Po: Paris, FR

2018-10 to present | Associate Researcher (Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies (LIEPP))
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EACES - European Association for Comparative Economic Studies: Regensburg, DE

2022-09 to 2024-09 | Vice President
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Stanford University: Stanford, California, US

2022-01 to 2022-04 | Wayne Vuchinich Fellow (visiting fellowship) (CREEES - Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies,)
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London School of Economics and Political Science: London, GB

2021-12 | LSEE-CEFTA Best paper award - runner up (LSEE - LSE Research on South East Europe)
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European Association for Comparative Economic Studies (EACES): Regensburg, DE

2018-06 | Best PhD Thesis Award
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Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics: Paris, Île-de-France, FR

2016-07 | Early Career Researcher Award
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Funding (1)

SEEGROW - Southeast Europe’s emerging growth advocates: Domestic firms, technology and economic governance in institutionally weak states

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Works (19)

Theorizing from a Void: Epistemic Lessons from the Semiperiphery

An Invitation to Non-Hegemonic World Sociology
2024-07-27 | Book chapter
Contributors: Sonja Avlijas; Marina Hughson
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Sonja Avlijas

Firm-Centered Approaches to Overcoming Semi-Peripheral Constraints

Studies in Comparative International Development
2024-07-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0039-3606
Part of ISSN: 1936-6167
Contributors: Sonja Avlijaš; Kira Gartzou Katsouyanni
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Reconfiguring FDI dependency: SMEs as emerging stakeholders in an advanced peripheral export-led growth model

Competition & Change
2023-11-01 | Journal article | Author
Part of ISSN: 1024-5294
Part of ISSN: 1477-2221
Contributors: Sonja Avlijas; Pavle Medić; Kori Udovički
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Sonja Avlijas
grade
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Women, Work and Labour Market Policy

Handbook of Labour Market Policy in Advanced Democracie
2023-10-07 | Book chapter
Contributors: Sonja Avlijas
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How regional integration agreements can foster inclusive growth: lessons from exporting SMEs in the Western Balkans

Economic Annals
2022-12 | Journal article | Author
Part of ISSN: 0013-3264
Part of ISSN: 1820-7375
Contributors: Sonja Avlijas
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Sonja Avlijas
grade
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On Bálint Magyar and Bálint Madlovics’s "The Anatomy of Post-communist Regimes —a conceptual framework", Budapest and New York: CEU Press, 2020

Socio-Economic Review
2022-07-08 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1475-1461
Part of ISSN: 1475-147X
Contributors: Sonja Avlijas
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Explaining the Contrasting Welfare Trajectories of the Baltic and Visegrád Countries

The World Politics of Social Investment: Volume II
2022-06-03 | Book chapter
Contributors: Sonja Avlijas
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Sonja Avlijas

Book review: In AI We Trust: Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms

European Journal of Social Theory
2022-02-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1368-4310
Part of ISSN: 1461-7137
Contributors: Sonja Avlijas
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Sonja Avlijas
grade
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Security for whom? Inequality and Human Dignity in Times of the Pandemic

Pandemics, Politics, and Society
2021-02-22 | Book chapter
Contributors: Sonja Avlijas
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The pursuit of growth. Growth regimes, growth strategies and welfare reforms in advanced capitalist economies

Stato e mercato
2020 | Journal article
Contributors: Sonja Avlijas
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Growth Strategies and Welfare Reforms in Europe

Growth and Welfare in Advanced Capitalist Economies
2020-11-27 | Book chapter
Contributors: Sonja Avlijas
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Growth Models and Female Labor in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe

Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society
2020-09-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1072-4745
Part of ISSN: 1468-2893
Contributors: Sonja Avlijas
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Sonja Avlijas
grade
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Beyond Neoliberalism? Revisiting the Welfare State in the Baltic States

Europe-Asia Studies
2020-04-20 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0966-8136
Part of ISSN: 1465-3427
Contributors: Sonja Avlijas
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Sonja Avlijas
grade
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Theorising the effect of transition on female labour force in the European semi-periphery: An interdisciplinary methodology

Sociologija
2018 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0038-0318
Part of ISSN: 2406-0712
Contributors: Sonja Avlijas
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Gender Wage Inequality in the Western Balkans

Inequalities During and After Transition in Central and Eastern Europe
2015 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9781137460981
Contributors: Sonja Avlijas
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Dorothee Bohle and Béla Greskovits: Capitalist Diversity on Europe's Periphery

Croatian Economic Survey
2014-12-29 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1330-4860
Part of ISSN: 1846-3878
Contributors: Sonja Avlijas
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Simulating Policy Reform: Distributional and Poverty Outcomes of the New Social Welfare Law in Serbia

Poverty and Exclusion in the Western Balkans
2013 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9781461449447
Part of ISBN: 9781461449454
Part of ISSN: 2364-107X
Part of ISSN: 2364-1088
Contributors: Sonja Avlijas
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VIII. Regionalization and Regional Development in Serbia

Regional Dynamics in Central and Eastern Europe
2013-01-01 | Book chapter
Contributors: Sonja Avlijas
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Sonja Avlijas

Political Economy of Local Level Public Sector Employment: A Case Study of Serbia

Southeastern Europe
2011-09-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0094-4467
Part of ISSN: 1876-3332
Contributors: Sonja Avlijas
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Peer review (2 reviews for 1 publication/grant)

Review activity for Economic systems (2)