Sonja Kovacevic

Academic interests

Welfare states, redistribution and inequality. Institutional quality. Universal institutions and redistribution preferences.

Background

PhD, University of Oslo, (2017- )

Master of Research Political Economy, University of Essex (2014-2016)

Bachelor's degree in political science, University of Bremen and Sciences Po Bordeaux (2010-2014)

Positions held

• International Labour Organization (ILO), employment department, Youth Employment Programme. Junior Technical Officer (2016-2017)
• University of Essex, Graduate Teaching Assistant (2015-2016)
• University of Bremen, Research Assistant at the SOCIUM research center for social policy and inequality and the and the Collaborative Research Center 597 "Transformations of the State" (2012-2014)
• Internship at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) at the department "Forecasting and Economic Policy" (2013)

Supervisors

Jo Thori Lind

Andreas Kotserdam

Publications

Obinger, Herbert, and Sonja Kovacevic. "Soziale Kriegsrüstung. Militär, militärische Interessen und die Anfänge des Wohlfahrtsstaates in der kuk Monarchie." PVS Politische Vierteljahresschrift 57.1 (2016): 116-146.