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Curriculum Vitae
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Damjan Lajh
(Slovenia)
00 386 1 5805 227
[email protected]
http://www.jmc-lajh.si
Sex Male | Date of birth | Nationality Slovene
WORK EXPERIENCE
May 2011 – Present
Associate Professor
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences
Kardeljeva ploscad 5 SI-1000 Ljubljana (Slovenia)
http://www.fdv.uni-lj.si
- Head of Policy Analysis and Public Administration Chair (2011-)
- Jean Monnet Chair (2012-2015)
- Teaching and research activities
- Undergraduate and Postgraduate Courses: EU Policies, Interest groups and lobbying in the EU,
Politics in the territory of former Yugoslavia, Policy analysis, Public policies, EU policy-making
- Researcher in the Centre for Political Science Research
- Member of the research programme "Political Science Research" (P5-0136)
Business or sector Public sector - University
May 2006 – May 2011
Assistant Professor
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences
Kardeljeva ploščad 5, 1000 Ljubljana (Slovenia)
- Teaching and research activities
- Undergraduate and Postgraduate Courses: Introduction to the EU, EU Policies, Interest groups and
lobbying in the EU, Politics in the territory of former Yugoslavia, Public policies, EU policy-making
- member of the research programme "Political Science Research" (P5-0136)
- member of the Senate of the Faculty of Social Sciences (2009-2011)
Business or sector Public sector - University
May 2004 – May 2006
Researcher
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences
Researcher in the project "Politics in the Territory of Former Yugoslavia" (J5-6154), financed in the
framework of National Research Programme of the Republic of Slovenia in the period 2004-2006
Business or sector Research centre
November 2001 – May 2004
Researcher
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences
Researcher in the EU's Fifth Framework Programme project "Organising for Enlargement: A
Challenge for the Member States and the Candidate Countries" (HPSE-CT-2001-00083)
Business or sector Research centre
March 2001 – September 2001
Researcher
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Peace Institute, (Ljubljana)
Researcher in the project "Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe (Evaluation Study)"; project
financed by Open Society Institute New York
Business or sector Nongovernmental organisation
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
00 – 05
PhD in Political Science
ISCED 6
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences
PhD Thesis Title: "Implementation of European Cohesion Policy in Slovenia"
96 – 00
BA in Political Science
ISCED 5
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences
PERSONAL SKILLS
Mother tongue(s)
Slovenian
Other language(s)
UNDERSTANDING
SPEAKING
WRITING
Listening
Reading
Spoken interaction
Spoken production
English
C2
C2
C1
C1
C1
Croatian
C1
C2
B2
B2
B2
A2
A2
A1
A1
A1
German
Levels: A1/A2: Basic user - B1/B2: Independent user - C1/C2: Proficient user
Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
Communication skills
Computer skills
- team work, ability to integrate and efficiently act within a team
- communication and presentation skills: teaching experiences at undergraduate and postgraduate
levels, regular participation at international and national science and professional conferences
- research experiences in many international and national projects, author or co-author of several
scholarly books and many articles in scientific journals and edited volumes
- MS Office applications
- Internet browsers
- SPSS
- Adobe, Picasa
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
RESEARCH PROJECTS
- MEUA - Makingthe EU attractive for primary school pupils: development of non-formal
learningapproaches (2013-2014), Lifelong Learning Programme, Jean Monnet Programme, Teaching
EU at School (project's leader: Prof. Damjan Lajh);
- EUROPP - European Policy Processes (2012-2015), Lifelong Learning Programme, Jean Monnet
Programme, Jean Monnet Chair (project's leader: Prof. Damjan Lajh);
- I Feel Europe: Teaching Europe in Rural Areas (2012-2013), Lifelong Learning Programme, Jean
Monnet Programme, Teaching EU at School (project's leader: Prof. Damjan Lajh);
- INTEREURO - Comparitive Research on Interest Group Politics in Europe (2011-2014), European
Science Foundation (team member; project's leader in Slovenia: Prof. Danica Fink Hafner);
- European Integrity Systems Project (2010-2012), Transperency International (team member;
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project's leader in Slovenia: Simona Habič);
- Open Method of Coordination: Analysis of Its Policy and Political Consequences (2009-2012), basic
research project (project’s leader: Prof. Danica Fink Hafner);
- The Role of National Parliaments and Political Parties in the Processes of European Integration
(2009-2010), bilateral research project (team member; coordinators of the project Prof. Nenad
Zakošek and Prof. Danica Fink Hafner);
- CINEFOGO - Civil Society and New Forms of Governance in Europe - the making of European
Citizenship (2007-2009), Sixth Framework Programme of the European Union (team member;
project’s leader in Slovenia Prof. Zinka Kolarič);
- Challenges to Democratic Stability (2007-2009), bilateral research project (team member;
coordinators of the project Prof. Sabrina Ramet and Prof. Danica Fink Hafner);
- The Role of National Parliaments in the processes of European Integration (2008-2009), bilateral
research project (team member; coordinators of the project Prof. Mirko Pejanović and Prof. Danica
Fink Hafner);
- Relations between National Political Parties and European Party Federations – The Case of
Slovenian and Czech Parliamentary Parties (2002-2003), bilateral research project (team member;
coordinators of the project: dr. Ladislav Cabada and dr. Alenka Krašovec).
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
- (2011) The Reception of the Open Method of Coordination in Slovenia. Ljubljana: Faculty of Social
Sciences (co-author with Urška Štremfel).
- (2009) Evropska unija od A do Ž (European Union from A to Z). Ljubljana: Uradni list RS (co-editor
with Sabina Kajnč).
- (2006) Evropeizacija in regionalizacija: spremembe na (sub)nacionalni ravni in implementacija
kohezijske politike EU v Sloveniji (Europeanization and Regionalization: Changes at (Sub-)National
Level and Implementation of EU Cohesion Policy in Slovenia). Ljubljana: Faculty of Social Sciences.
- (2005) Politika na območju nekdanje Jugoslavije (Politics in the Territory of Former Yugoslavia).
Ljubljana: Faculty of Social Sciences (co-author with Danica Fink-Hafner and Alenka Krašovec).
- (2005) Proces evropeizacije in prilagajanje političnih ustanov na nacionalni ravni (Europeanization
Process and Adaptation of Political Institutions at the National Level). Ljubljana: Faculty of Social
Sciences (co-author with Danica Fink-Hafner).
- (2003) Managing Europe from Home: the Europeanisation of the Slovenian Core Executive.
Ljubljana: Faculty of Social Sciences (co-author with Danica Fink-Hafner).
- (2002) Stability Pact: Slovenia – NGOs (evaluation study). Ljubljana: Peace Institute.
- (2002) Analiza politik (Policy Analysis). Ljubljana: Faculty of Social Sciences (co-editor with Danica
Fink-Hafner).
ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
- (2012) Twenty Years of Relations betwen the Republic of Slovenia and the European Union. Studia
Historica Slovenica, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 125-146
- (2012) Good Governance in the Slovenian Employment and Education Policy Fields: Myth or
Reality?. Romanian Journal of Political Science, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 77-102 (co-author with Urška
Štremfel).
- (2012) Development of Slovenian Education Policy in the European Context and Beyond. Bulgarian
Journal of Science and Education Policy, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 98-116 (co-author with Urška Štremfel).
- (2011) Exploiting the Potential of the Open Method of Coordination in Slovenian Education Policy.
Sociologicky časopis/Czech Sociological Review, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 507–529 (co-author with Urška
Štremfel).
- (2010) Implementing EU Lifelong Learning Policy Through Open Method of Coordination in New
Member States: Comparative Analysis of the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Slovenia. Journal of
Comparative Politics, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 64–84 (co-author with Urška Štremfel).
- (2010) Využití přístupů nového institucionalimu pro vysvětlení institucionálních změn v oblasti politiky
regionálního rozvoje ve Slovinsku (New Institutionalism Approach and the Institutional Changes in
Slovenian Regional Development Policy). Politologický časopis/ Czech Journal of Political Science,
vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 432–450 (co-author with Ladislav Cabada).
- (2009) The European Union: A Joker or Just an Ordinary Playing Card for Slovenian Political
Parties? Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 491–512 (co-author
with Alenka Krašovec).
- (2008) Have Democratization Processes been a Catalyst for the Europeanization of Party Politics in
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Slovenia? Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 183–203 (co-author with
Alenka Krašovec).
- (2007) Referendum o ulasku Slovenije u Europsku Uniju: međunarodni komparativni pogled
(Referendum About Joining Slovenia Into the European Union: International Comparative View).
Politička misao, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 45–65 (co-author with Alenka Krašovec).
- (2007) Post-Yugoslav Region between Democratisation and Europeanisation of Party Politics:
Experiences from Slovenia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Politics in Central Europe, vol. 3, no. 1/2, pp.
71–91 (co-author with Alenka Krašovec).
- (2006) Zajednička kohezijska politika i višerazinsko odlučivanje u Europskoj Uniji (Common
Cohesion Policy and Multilevel Decision-Making in the European Union). Politička misao, vol. 43, no.
4, pp. 3–24.
- (2005) Responses to the Processes of Europeanization and Regionalisation: Domestic Changes in
Slovenia. Perspectives, no. 23, pp. 36-60.
- (2004) Implementing the EU's Structural Policy and Subnational Mobilisation in Slovenia. Central
European Political Science Review, vol. 5, no. 15, pp. 95–114.
- (2004) The Slovenian EU Accession Referendum: A Cat-and-Mouse Game. West European Politics,
vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 603–623 (co-author with Alenka Krašovec).
- (2004) Lessons from Managing Conflict Situations in the EU Accession Negotiations: the Case of
Slovenia. Central European Political Science Review, vol. 5, no. 15, pp. 52–73 (co-author with Danica
Fink-Hafner).
- (2003) The Europeanization of Regionalization: Building Multi-level Institutional Setting in Slovenia.
Central European Political Science Review, vol. 4, no. 13, pp. 89–111.
- (2002) Institucionalno prilagajanje slovenske izvršne oblasti povezovanju Slovenije z ES/EU:
mednarodno primerjalni pogled (Institutional Adaptation of Slovenian Executive Power to the
Integration of Slovenia with the EC/EU: International Comparative View). Teorija in praksa, vol. 39, no.
6, pp. 970–999 (co-author with Danica Fink-Hafner).
CHAPTERS IN EDITED BOOKS
- (2012) Europeanization in South East Europe. In: Sternad, Dietmar and Döring, Thomas (eds.).
Handbook of Doing Business in South East Europe. Houndmills, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.
25–50 (co-author with Danica Fink-Hafner).
- (2010) The Executive Co-ordination of the Slovenian EU Presidency: An Honest Broker. V: Drulák,
Petr and Šabič, Zlatko (eds.). The Czech and Slovenian EU Presidencies in a Comparative
Perspective (European Union studies library, 1). Dordrecht: Republic of Letters, pp. 111–126.
- (2010) Slovenia. In: Lodge, Juliet (ed.). The 2009 Elections to the European Parliament. Houndmills,
Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 252–258 (co-author with Alenka Krašovec).
- (2010) The Open Method of Coordination in the Global Context of Policy Cooperation. In: FinkHafner, Danica (ed.). The Open Method of Coordination: A View from Slovenia. Ljubljana: Faculty of
Social Sciences, pp. 17–34 (co-author with Danica Fink Hafner and Tomaž Deželan).
- (2010) Slovenian Employment Policy: From Self-Management to Common (International) Goals and
Paradigms? In: Fink-Hafner, Danica (ed.). The Open Method of Coordination: A View from Slovenia.
Ljubljana: Faculty of Social Sciences, pp. 35–58 (co-author with Tomislav Silaj).
- (2010) Flourishing Cooperation with Limited Effects? Slovenian Education Policy in an International
Environment. In: Fink-Hafner, Danica (ed.). The Open Method of Coordination: A View from Slovenia.
Ljubljana: Faculty of Social Sciences, pp. 59–79 (co-author with Urška Štremfel).
- (2010) Specialisti za zadeve Evropske unije in njihova vloga v volilnih procesih (Specialists for the
EU Matters and Their Role in Electoral Processes). In: Krašovec, Alenka (ed.). Volitve v Evropski
parlament 2009 (2009 Elections to the European Parliament). Ljubljana: Faculty of Social Sciences,
pp. 117–140 (co-author with Alenka Krašovec).
- (2009) Multi-level Governance and the Implementation of EU Cohesion Policy in Slovenia. In:
Hristova-Valtcheva, Katia (ed.): New Actors in a New Environment: Accession to the European Union,
Civil Society and Multi-level Governance. Sofia: BECSA, pp. 187-211.
- (2009) Participacija subnacionalnih akterjev v procesih evropskega povezovanja (Participation of
Subnational Actors in the Processes of European Integration). In: Haček, Miro (ed.). Lokalna
demokracija III (Local Denocracy III). Ljubljana: Faculty of Social Sciences, pp. 51–66.
- (2008) Domestic Response(s) to Managing and Implementing the European Union's Cohesion
Policy: the Slovenian Experience. In: Nikolov, Krassimir Y. (ed.). Adapting to Integration in an Enlarged
European Union. Vol. 1, Adapting Key Policies in the Enlarged Union. Sofia: Bulgarian European
Community Studies Association, pp. 285–313.
- (2007) Izvajanje javnih politik (Implementation of Public Policies). In: Fink-Hafner, Danica (ed.). Uvod
v analizo politik : teorije, koncepti, načela (Introduction to Policy Analysis: Theories, Concepts,
Principles). Ljubljana: Faculty of Social Sciences, pp. 155–174.
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- (2007) Proces oblikovanja dnevnega reda (Agenda-Setting Process). In: Fink-Hafner, Danica (ed.).
Uvod v analizo politik : teorije, koncepti, načela (Introduction to Policy Analysis: Theories, Concepts,
Principles). Ljubljana: Faculty of Social Sciences, pp. 125–141 (co-author with Simona Kustec
Lipicer).
- (2007) Slovenia: National Legislation on EP Elections. In: Déloye, Yves and Bruter, Michael (eds.).
Encyclopaedia of European Elections. Basingstoke, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 444–450
(coauthor with Alenka Krašovec and Simona Kustec Lipicer).
- (2006) The European Union and Party Politics in Slovenia: An Apparent or Real Impact? In: Lewis,
Paul G. and Mansfeldová, Zdenka (eds.). The European Union and Party Politics in Central and
Eastern Europe (Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics). Basingstoke, New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, pp. 169–189 (co-author with Alenka Krašovec and Simona Kustec Lipicer).
- (2005) The Slovenian EU Accession Referendum: A Cat-and-Mouse Game. In: Szczerbiak, Aleks
and Taggart, Paul A. (eds.). EU Enlargement and Referendums. London, New York: Routledge, pp.
47–67.
- (2004) Co-operation Between Slovenian Parliamentary Political Parties and European Party
Federations. In: Cabada, Ladislav and Krašovec, Alenka (eds.). Europeanisation of National Political
Parties. Plzeň: Vydavatelství a nakladatelství Aleš Čeněk, pp. 161–177 (co-author with Alenka
Krašovec).
- (2004) Slovenian Parliamentary Parties and Candidate Selection for Elections to the European
Parliament. In: Cabada, Ladislav and Krašovec, Alenka (eds.). Europeanisation of National Political
Parties. Plzeň: Vydavatelství a nakladatelství Aleš Čeněk, pp. 178–197 (co-author with Alenka
Krašovec).
PAPERS PRESENTED AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
- (2012) Politico–Administrative Relations within the Framework of OMC Processes: Comparing
Policy Sectors in Slovenia. Paper presented at the “Reshaping Power, Shifting Boundaries” 22nd
World Congress of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), Madrid, 8–12 July 2012 (coauthor with Danica Fink-Hafner).
- (2011) The Local Level in the Open Method of Coordination: Ljubljana's Role in Slovenian/European
Education Space. ECER – The European Conference on Educational Research, "Urban Education",
Berlin 12–16 September 2011 (co-author with Urška Štremfel).
- (2011) Good Governance in Slovenian Employment and Education Policy Fields: Myth or Reality?
ECPR General Conference, Reykjavik, University of Iceland, 25–27 August 2011 (co-author with
Urška Štremfel).
- (2009) The European Union: What Kind of Gambling Table for Slovenian Political Parties? ECPR
General Conference, Potsdam, 10–12 September 2009 (co-author with Alenka Krašovec).
- (2009) Multi-Level Governance in Slovenia: A Myth or Reality? CINEFOGO: The Making of
European Citizenship, FP6 Network of Excellence and Bulgarian European Community Studies
Association Conference "New actors in a new environment: accession to the European Union, Civil
Society and Multi-level Governance", Sofia, 15 May 2009.
- (2008) The (Non-) Impact of the EU on Party Politics in Slovenia. Paper presented at the Workshop
“Beyond Europeanization? The (Non-) Impact of the EU on Party Politics. London, 7 May 2008
(coauthor with Alenka Krašovec).
- (2007) The Impact of the EU on Party Politics in Slovenia: Frozen at the Turn of the 20th Century?
ECPR General Conference, Pisa, Italy, 6–8 September 2007 (co-author with Alenka Krašovec).
- (2007) Domestic Response(s) to Managing and Implementation of the EU Cohesion Policy. Paper
presented at International Conference "Adapting to integration in an Enlarged European Union”, Sofia,
Bulgaria, 1 June 2007.
- (2007) Absence of Party-Based Euroscepticism in Full-Membership Period in Slovenia. Paper
presented at International Scientific Conference "Euroscepticism and European Integration", Zagreb,
Croatia, 12–13 April 2007 (co-author with Alenka Krašovec).
- (2006) EU-Influenced Institutional Opportunity Structures, Networking and Their Impacts on the Role
of Interest Groups in Slovenia. ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Nicosia, 25–30 April 2006
(coauthor with Danica Fink Hafner).
- (2004) Europeanisation and Regionalisation: Domestic Change(s) and Structural Networks in
Slovenia. ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Uppsala, 13–18 April 2004.
- (2004) Preparations for EU Structural Funds in Slovenia: How the Slovenian Hen Hatches the EU's
Golden Eggs? Dublin: University College Dublin. Final Plenary Conference "The Challenge of EU
Enlargement. Managing EU Business & Policy Implementation", 24–25 September 2004.
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- In the period from 2004 to 2007 along with Prof. Alenka Krašovec he published expert articles in
Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration (Baden-Baden: Nomos) about Slovenian membership in the
European Union.
- Since 2008 he has been preparing expert reports for international organization Freedom House
Europe (in the framework of the project Nations in Transit) about democratic performance in Slovenia.
- Together with Prof. Danica Fink Hafner he analysed the Slovenian Presidency to the Council of the
European Union in the first half of 2008; the expert report was published in a special publication of
SIEPS – Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
- Head of Policy Analysis and Public Administration Chair (2011–);
- Member of the Senate of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana (2009–2011);
- Member of the Centre for Political Science Research;
- Member of the Slovenian Political Science Association;
- Member of ECPR – European Consortium for Political Research;
- Member of IPSA – International Political Science Association.
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