Dušan Pavlović (professor)

Dušan Pavlović (Serbian Cyrillic: Душан Павловић, born in April 1969), is Serbian political economist, political analyst, author and politician.

Pavlović was born in 1969 in Zagreb, Croatia. He moved with his mother to Belgrade in 1981. Between 1989 and 1994, while a student in Belgrade, Pavlović was a founder member of doo-wop band Vampiri. He played a rhythm guitar.

Pavlović received his BA degree from the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Belgrade in 1994, and MA and Ph.D. degrees from the Central European University in Budapest in 1997 and 2003, respectively. Since 2005, he teaches political economy with public choice at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade, where he currently holds the title of an associate professor. His areas of interest are political economy of democratic institutions, and rational and public choice theory.

Between 1999 and 2005, he worked at the Institute for European Studies (1996-2001), the G17 institute (2001-2003), and the Jefferson Institute in Belgrade (2004-2005).

His academic works include Consolidation of Democratic Institutions in Serbia after 2000 (2007), Writings in Political Economy (2010), and Game Theory: Basic Games and Applications (2014). He authored a number of articles in Politika, Danas,Vreme and other newspapers in 2001-2013. He regularly blogs on public policy and theoretical issues on his blog named Political blogonomy.

Between September 2013 and January 2014, Pavlović was an advisor to the Minister of economy, position held by his close friend Saša Radulović When Radulović resigned, disappointed by the obstruction of Aleksandar Vučić, Pavlović did the same. Together, they formed the Enough is Enough movement, advocating the changes in Serbian political culture and the breakup of political cartels in Serbia, which has eventually raised to the level of a political movement. On the Serbian parliamentary election, 2016, the movement won 6.02% of the vote and 16 seats in the National Assembly. Pavlović, who was second on the list, became an MP on June 2, 2016.

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