Welcome!
My name is Marko Grdesic. I am a recent graduate from the Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin Madison. My PhD adviser was Pamela Oliver.
I am primarily interested in social movements and political sociology. My dissertation project analyzes populism as a set of elite-mass interactions. I look at the interaction of mass and elite players in a variety of arenas and in a variety of ways. The methods vary from statistical (such as event history and time series analysis) to qualitative (focus groups, analysis of media discourses and political cartoons). The case is Serbia in 1988, when a large protest wave took place and deeply shook socialist Yugoslavia. I think populism is fascinating though it is neglected in the literature on social movements.
I also have a variety of other academic interests, such as the revolution in East Germany in 1989, labor relations, spatial methods and tinkering with code in R. I also have an interest in the big books on capitalism, from Adam Smith to Thomas Piketty. I am from Zagreb, Croatia where I am currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Zagreb.
Contact: grdesic@wisc.edu
My name is Marko Grdesic. I am a recent graduate from the Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin Madison. My PhD adviser was Pamela Oliver.
I am primarily interested in social movements and political sociology. My dissertation project analyzes populism as a set of elite-mass interactions. I look at the interaction of mass and elite players in a variety of arenas and in a variety of ways. The methods vary from statistical (such as event history and time series analysis) to qualitative (focus groups, analysis of media discourses and political cartoons). The case is Serbia in 1988, when a large protest wave took place and deeply shook socialist Yugoslavia. I think populism is fascinating though it is neglected in the literature on social movements.
I also have a variety of other academic interests, such as the revolution in East Germany in 1989, labor relations, spatial methods and tinkering with code in R. I also have an interest in the big books on capitalism, from Adam Smith to Thomas Piketty. I am from Zagreb, Croatia where I am currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Zagreb.
Contact: grdesic@wisc.edu
