Research assistant at the Faculty of Law at the University of Zagreb
Maja Gergorić is a research assistant at the Faculty of Law, Department of Social Policy at the University of Zagreb. She holds two Master’s degrees in Gender Studies and Political Science and is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology, focusing on the emergence of anti-gender movements in post-communist Europe. She also researches anti-abortion movements as well as gender equality and democratic backsliding in (South)Eastern Europe.
In recent years, European citizens have witnessed a rise in inequality, especially socio-economic, alongside an increase in vote share for radical right populist parties. By examining case studies from Italy, Hungary, and Spain (with the comparative case of Germany), this policy study argues that the rise of populism is not only linked to economic trends but also to other constitutional changes and institutional settings characterising European countries with a focus on economic inequality as the explanatory variable for political participation.
Political Mentor: Gaby Bischoff, MEP S&D
Academic Mentor: Eunice Goes, Professor of Politics at Richmond American University of London
Doctoral Researcher in Urban Planning, Design, and Policy at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies of the Polytechnic University of Milano
Doctoral researcher in Economics at the Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE)
Research assistant at the Faculty of Law at the University of Zagreb
Joint PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh and KU Leuven
