Milena Petrovic

Milena Petrovic is a Center for Public Policy Research Dissertation Fellow at The Murphy Institute and a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science. Her research explores the role of public bureaucracies in public policy design and delivery. Her dissertation, titled, Binding through Ideas: Bureaucratic Statecraft and Germany’s Bureaucratic Statecraft and Institutional Change in Advanced Democracies, is written under the direction of Prof. Thomas Oatley. 

Her interests are in the subfield of comparative political economy, with a focus on questions of interest intermediation and redistribution in advanced capitalist democracies. Prior to coming to Tulane, Milena worked for the New Zealand government as a policy adviser on labor market issues. She holds a BA(Hons) in International Relations from the University of Canterbury, and an MA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Victoria University of Wellington. She was selected as a Fulbright scholar for New Zealand in 2020.