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Zurnic, Marija

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  • Room: A1
  • Tel: +44 (0)1158467081
  • Fax: +44 (0)115 951 4859
  • Email: Marija Zurnic

Research Topic

The Financial Elite and Corruption in Contemporary Serbian Society

My research is focused on the transitional process in Serbia after the political change in October 2000 from the perspective of political corruption. My initial hypothesis is that the transition of corruption occurred in parallel with the transformation of the socio-political and economic structures. I shall argue that the neo-patrimonial pattern of corruption in Serbia developed during the 1990s has been transformed into state capture after the democratic changes. Therefore, my analysis will be focused on the adaptation of the financial elite to the post-2000 economic and political circumstances in order to avoid lustration and capital loss.


Research Supervisors

Professor Paul Heywood and Dr Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling

Primary Funding Source

International Research Excellence Scholarship


Centre

Centre for the Study of European Governance


Research Interests

  • Social change and transition in Eastern Europe
  • Corruption in post-conflict societies
  • Corruption, democratisation and globalisation

Publications

  • Corruption in Contemporary Serbian Society. State Capture or State Building? (MA’s thesis), Instituto per l’Europa Centro-Orientale e Balcanica, University of Bologna, Italy (forthcoming);
  • Intellectual Activism in Yugoslav Society Seen through Contemporary Yugoslav Cinematography (from the mid-1970s to the late 1980s), Instituto per l’Europa Centro-Orientale e Balcanica, University of Bologna, Italy (forthcoming);

 

 

School of Politics and International Relations

University of Nottingham
University Park, Nottingham
NG7 2RD

telephone: +44 (0) 115 951 4862
fax: +44 (0) 115 951 4859
email: politics-enquiries@nottingham.ac.uk