She received her degrees from the LSE (MSc 2005) and ETH Zürich (PhD 2012). Danijela specialises in the democratization and political economy of European states, as well as nurtures a growing interest in critical development studies and the social science history of the former Eastern Bloc. Some of her recent work includes „Exploring Commons Theory for Principles of a Socialist Governmentality” (with Žitko, 2016), „Plus ca change: Mapping Conversions in the Croatian Academic Field in the Early 1990s” (with Doolan and Žitko, 2015) and „Why power is not a peripheral concern: exploring the relationship between inequality and sustainability” (with Domazet and Ančić, 2014).