Tepavac Tara
Tara is a Research Assistant at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory at the University of Belgrade (IFDT). She holds at a joint MA degree in Interdisciplinary South-Eastern European studies the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Belgrade and the Karl-Franzens-University in Graz, and is currently pursuing her PhD in Law and Politics at the Karl-Franzens-University in Graz (Austria). Her research focus is primarily on the functioning of democratic institutions and processes in semi-authoritarian regimes, particularly on the role and performance of parliaments and independent bodies, democratisation, democratic innovations and deliberative tools and processes. She has published several public policy and academic papers, and coordinated a number of national, regional and international project in the civil society sector.