Her fields of interest include public administration reform, agencies, regulation, transparency and the right to access information, e-government, open data of public administration, coordination in administration, Europeanisation of public administration, European administrative area, responsibility of administration, independent control bodies, ombudsman, relationship between administration and citizens, post-materialism, sociology of administration, risk regulation, regulation of professions, Europeanisation of local self-government

 

Since 2001 she has been employed at the Faculty of Law as a researcher (until 2003), assistant (until 2009), senior assistant (until 2010), assistant professor (until 2018) and associate professor (since March 2019). In July 2015, she was elected to the scientific title of a senior scientific associate.

From 25.10.2013 until 25.10.2018. she held the public office of the commissioner for information based on the decision of the Croatian Parliament.

She participates in holding classes at the Faculty of Law on all levels and in specialist studies at the University of Zagreb. From 2009 to 2015, she also taught at the Faculty of Political Sciences.

 

Selected participation in international scientific conferences

  1. 27th NISPAcee Annual Conference (Network of Institutes and Schools of Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe), Prague, 24-26 May 2019 / ‘For the glory of the rule of law: Institutional aspects of the Access to information Laws in seven CEE countries’
  2. Scientific-expert meeting Consultation of the Institute for Public Administration „Normalisation of the Status of Public Servants – a Solution or a Trap“, Zagreb, 7 March, 2019. / Political advisers: between Administration and Politics
  3. Annual Conference European Group for Public Administration (EGPA), PSG X Law and Administration, Utrecht, NL, 22-26 August 2016 / paper The Laws of Transparency in Practice: Croatian Case
  4. 24th NISPAcee Annual Conference (Network of Institutes and Schools of Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe), Zagreb, 19-21 May, 2016 / keynote speech Republic of Croatia: The Main Problems, Results and Prospects of Public Administration Reform in Croatia;
  5. COST IS1207 Local Public Sector Reforms Conference, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, 30-31 March, 2016 / paper:  The Regulatory Impact Assessment and Local Government (co-author: Gerard Marcou)
  6. 9th Trans-European Dialogue (TED), EGPA & NISPA, Faculty of Administration, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 4-5 February, 2016 / Open Data: One of the Corner Stones of Open Government
  7. EGOSE conference Electronic Governance and Open society: Challenges in Eurasia, 24-25 November St Petersburg, Russia / presentation: The Perception of E-democracy and E-participation at the Individual Level – a Croatian Example (co-authors Žajdela Hrustek, N. & Mekovec, R.)
  8. 8th RESPA Annual Conference The Professionalisation of Civil Service between Politics and Administration, 12-13 November 2015, Danilovgrad, Montenegro. / presentation: Integrity and Free Access to Information. Croatian Experience
  9. 4th Global Conference on Transparency Research, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Lugano, Switzerland, 4-6 June, 2015 /presentation: Review of Institutional Models Supporting the Access to Information Laws
  10. International conference Good Local Governance: Local Public Services in France and Croatia in the context of European Subsidiarity Principle, final conference of the project Cogito Huber Curien, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, 16-17. October, 2014., Zagreb; presentations: (1) Transparency and Participation In Digital Local Governments: A Case Of Croatia (co-author: Petra Đurman), (2) European Standards for Good Local Governance 
  11. International Political Science Association (IPSA) 28th World Congress 2014 ‘Challenges of Contemporary Governance’, 19-24 July, 2014, Montreal, Canada 2014  / paper: Transparency and Openness in Local Governance in New democracies:  A case of Croatian Cities (co-authors Domagoj Bebić and Petra Đurman)
  12. 2nd  Croatia-Turkey Jurist Days, 02-05 April 2014, Dubrovnik, Croatia / paper:  Administrative Transparency and the Right to Access to Information in Croatia
  13. Central European Political Association (CEPSA) Annual Conference 2013, 25-26 October, 2013, Plzen, Check Republic / paper: Challenges of Anti-Corruption Policy: The Case of Croatia (co-author: Petra Đurman)
  14. Faculte du droit & IPAG, Universitee Valenciennes, Faculty of Law in Zagreb, Workshop ‘Good Local Governance: Local Public Services in the Context of European Principle of Subsidiarity’, 15 October, 2013, Valenciennes, France/ paper: European Standards of Good Local Governance
  15. Faculty of Law,  University o Zagreb and Faculte du droit & IPAG, Universitee Valenciennes, Workshop ‘Good Local Governance: Local Public Services in the Context of European Principle of Subsidiarity’,  01-02 July, 2013, Zagreb, Croatia / paper:  Transparency and Openness in Local Governance in Croatia (co-author: Petra Đurman)
  16. 1st Croatia-Turkey Jurist Days, 26-27 April, 2013, Istanbul, Turkey  / paper: Europeanization of the Croatian Public Administration and Administrative Law ,
  17. International Political Science Association (IPSA) Research Committees RC32 and RC05 Conference ‘Europeanization of Public Administration and Public Policy: Sharing Norms, Values and Practices’, 4-8 April, 2013 / paper:  Reforming EU Agency Governance: More Control, Greater Accountability
  18. Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb and Fakultet a za državne in evropske študije, Kranj, Slovenija, workshop ‘Zaštita prava čovjeka i građanina u upravnim i sudskim postupcima’ (Protection of human and citizen’s rights in administrative and court procedures), 7. November, 2012,  Brdo pri Kranju, Slovenia, / paper: Novi hrvatski ombudsman: zaštita prava građana (A New Croatian Ombudsman: Protection of Citizen’s Rights)
  19. Conference ‘EU and Icelandic Public Administration: The Impact of the EEA and the EU Accession Process on the PAR in Iceland’, Reykjavik, 18th October 2012  / paper: The Impact of EU Accession on Public Administration Reform in Croatia: Opportunities and Obstacles
  20. University in Split, Faculty of Law in Split, Université Panthéon-Assas, Paris II, Conseil d’Etat de France, Centre de documentation et de recherches européennes – R. Schuman (Split), Šesti hrvatsko-francuski upravnopravni dani – ‘Javna uprava i upravno pravo: nova pravila i utjecaj europskog prava’ (The 6th Croatian-French days of Administrative Law – Public Administration and Administrative Law: New Rules and the Impact of European Law), 24-25. September 2012, Split, Croatia / paper: Europeizacija službeničkog prava: usklađivanje hrvatskog zakonodavstva s europskim standardima (Europeanisation of Law on civil Servants: Harmonization of Croatian legislation with European Standards (co-author: Gordana Marčetić)
  21. International Political Science Association (IPSA) 27th World Congress 2012 ‘Reordering Power, Shifting Boundaries’, 8-12 July, 2012, Madrid, Spain / paper:  ‘Coordination in Transition’ (co-author: Zdravko Petak)
  22. European Group for Public Administration (EGPA) and NISPAcee, 5th Trans-European Dialogue 2012 (TED) ‘The Politics of Agency Governance’, 1-3 February, 2012, Budapest, Hungary / paper Agencies between Expertise, Politics and Law: the Case of three South Eastern European Countries (co-authors: Ivan Koprić and Polonca Kovač)
  23. International Political Science Association (IPSA) Research Committees RC32 Conference ‘Developing Policy in Different Cultural Contexts: Learning from Study, Learning from Experience’ 10-12 June, 2011, Dubrovnik, Croatia / paper: In Quest for Coordination: Policy Formulation and Implementation in Croatia (co-author: Zdravko Petak)
  24. University in Split, Faculty of Law in Split, Université Panthéon-Assas, Paris II, Conseil d’Etat de France, Centre de documentation et de recherches européennes – R. Schuman (Split),  Peti hrvatsko-francuski upravnopravni dani – ‘Upravno sudstvo pred europskim izazovima’(The 5th Croatian-French days of Administrative Law – Administrative jurisdiction facing European Challenges),10-11 October, 2011., Split, Croatia  / paper : Prilagodba procesa pripremanja propisa europskim integracijama : novine i izazovi (Adjustment of the Process of Preparing Regulations to European Integrations: News and Challenges)
  25. European Group for Public Administration (EGPA) 32nd Annual Conference 2010 , 8-10 September, 2010, Toulouse, France / paper: Agencies in Croatia: Something Old or Something New?
  26. Jean Monnet Multilateral Research Group, Southeastern European Developments on the Administrative Convergence and Enlargement of the European Administrative Space in Balkans’ Workshop ‘European Administrative Space – Balkan Realities’, 18-19 February, 2010, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Economics, Rijeka, Croatia / paper 1: ‘What is Good Administration in European Terms? Institutional Adjustments as a Ticket to European Administrative Space’ (co-authors: Ivan Koprić & Goranka Lalić Novak); paper 2: ‘European Perspective on Public Administration Quality: Rules, Goals and Instruments’ (co-author: Jasmina Džinić)
  27. Political Science Research Centre Forum, International Scientific Conference ‘Information Society and Globalization: Transformation of Politics’ 22 October, 2010, Dubrovnik, Croatia / paper:  Transparency and Data Protection in the Context of E-government: Two Case Studies, (co-authors: Marko Jurić & Mislav Mataija)
  28. Druga međunarodna konferencija Hrvatske platforme za upravljanje smanjenje rizika od katastrofa (Second International Conference of the Crotian Platform for the Management of  Risk Reduction in Case of Catastrophes, 14-15 October, 2010, Zagreb / paper: Regulacija rizika kao instrument smanjenja kriza: neki upravni i pravni aspekti (Regulation of Risks as an Instrument of Crisis Reduction: some Administrative and Legal Aspects)
  29. Observatory of Local Autonomy (OLA) International Conference: Status of Local Authorities in Europe, 9-11 June, 2010, Zagreb, Croatia / rad: The Special Status of the City of Zagreb (co-author: Tereza Rogić Lugarić)
  30. International colloquium, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Croatia & Faculty of Law, Skopje, FRY Macedonia, 10-11 May, 2010, Zagreb, Croatia / paper: EU Information Society: Challenges and Prospects of E-government
  31. Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, International scientific conference ‘Croatia and the EU: Integration Strategies and Creating Public Policies’, 26-27 March, 2010, Zagreb, Croatia / paper:  EU Internal Market, Professional Self-Regulation and Institutional Change in Croatian Public Sector (co-author: Jasmina Džinić)

 

 Selected participation in domestic scientific and professional gatherings

  1. Round table of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts: Adaptation of the Croatian Legal System, June 14, 2012 (Public administration)
  2. Consultations of the Institute for Public Administration: Good Governance in Independent Regulatory Bodies: In accordance with the Legal Framework, Zagreb, November 16, 2012
  3. Consultations of the Institute for Public Administration, Local and Regional Self-Government between the Economic Crisis and EU Membership, 16. November, 2011, Zagreb, presentation: Agencification as a New and Additional Centralization – Will Croatia ever be Able to Decentralize?
  4. Round table ‘Decentralization and Local Self-government’, Centre for Democracy and Law Miko Tripalo, Faculty of Law in Zagreb, 27 October 2011, presentation: ‘Europeanisation of Local Self-government’
  5. Conference organised by the British Embassy in Zagreb, Public Administration Reform / presentation: Public Administration Reform, invited speaker, 4 March, 2011, Westin (international)
  6. Round table: Croatian State and Administration – Situation and Perspectives, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, March 26 and 27, 2008, presentation: Croatia and the European Administrative Space: Towards the European Quality of Public Administration
  7. Conference: Informatopolis. Open Days of Modern Public Administration. Varaždin, September 21, 2006. Organiser: Faculty of Organization and Informatics, speaker on the topic: ‘E-governance. Digital Divide and the Issue of Access’)
  8. Consultations of the Institute for Public Administration, “Europeanisation of Croatian Administration and Application of the Law on Civil Servants”, Zagreb, 3 September, 2006, Organisers: Faculty of Law in Zagreb, Institute for Public Administration, Novi informator, presenter on the topic: “European Administrative Standards Regarding Civil Service Law”
  9. Conference “Local Self-Government Reform”, Institute for Public Administration, March 2002, speaker on the topic: “The Role of the Ombudsman in the Protection of Citizens from Local and Regional Self-government Bodies”

Organization of conferences and meetings

  1. International Political Science Association (IPSA) Research Committees RC32 and RC05 Conference in Cooperation with Faculty of Law in Zagreb, University of Zagreb and Institute for Public Administration ‘Europeanisation of Public Administration and Public Policy: Sharing Norms, Values ​​and Practices’, 4 – 8 April, 2013 (member of organisation committee)
  2. COGITO Project within Croatian French scientific research cooperation ‘Good Local Governance: Local Public Services in the Context of the European Principle of Subsidiarity’ 2013-2014 (co-leader of the project, organisation of two workshops and one conference)
  3. organisation of panel discussions of the Institute for Public Administration and of the Forum for Public Administration

Professional work

Participated in several professional projects in the field of public administration reform

Project and other reports

  1. Analysis of public administration study programs 2012, for PF, group of authors
  2. Administrative Law Assessment – ​​Montenegro, January 2012, for OECD-Sigma
  3. Civil Service Law Assessment – ​​Montenegro, January 2012, for OECD-Sigma
  4. Improvement of state administration in the area of ​​the City of Zagreb, report within the project ‘Functional Review, Modernisation and Democratisation of Local Self-government in the City of Zagreb’, Faculty of Law in Zagreb, 2006.
  5. General Administrative Law Framework – Croatia, August 2008, for OECD-Sigma
  6. Musa, Anamarija and Martina Ivanković (2003) Overview of public administration study programmes in European, countries with a proposal for a new programme of public administration studies; p. 1-105

 

Professional work in drafting of laws and strategies and professional consulting

  • Council of the Partnership for Open Government Initiative of the Government of the Republic of Croatia, deputy member (March 2012 -)
  • OECD Sigma 2011-2012, local consultant for evaluation of public administration in Montenegro (report, consulting)
  • Human Rights Development Strategy 2012 – 2015, Human Rights Office of the Government of the Republic of Croatia, member of the working group, June 2011 – December 2012
  • Round table on the new Act on the Assessment of the Impact of Regulations, invited participant and discussant; participation in the public consultation process with comments; round table held in the Croatian Employers’ Association HUP, 27.9.2011
  • Round table on the new Law on the Ombudsman, presentation and discussion, September 15, 2011
  • Round table on the Open Government Partnership Initiative, September 14, 2011, invited participant, participation in the discussion
  • Round table “Position of Independent Regulators in the Administrative and Legal System of the Republic of Croatia” (Forum of regulators); 15 July, 2011, moderator and discussant, together with prof. Koprić and MSc Pičuljan
  • Round table ‘Challenges of Citizens’ Involvement in the Shaping of Public Policies’, Croatian Parliament and Office of the Government of the Republic of Croatia for Associations, 13 June, 2011, invited participant
  • Project dealing with the drafting of the Law on the Ombudsman, III-V. 2011, Ministry of Justice, expert member of the working group (mainly worked on the law)
  • UNDP project October – December 2011 “Merging the Centre for Human Rights with the Office of the Ombudsman of the Republic of Croatia”, head of the working group, co-author of the study (Gotovac, Redžepagić)
  • OECD Sigma, September 2010, round table on drafting the new Law on General Administrative Procedure, with W. Rusch and Dr. Seizović, Sarajevo, September 16, 2010.
  • OECD Sigma, 2007, 2009, consultant for Croatia and the new Law on General Administrative Procedure