Danijela Dolenec

Danijela Dolenec is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Zagreb and President of the Board of the newly-founded Institute for Political Ecology. She teaches com

Disobedient democracies on Europe’s periphery: why are these crucial for rebuilding the left?

Rebuilding the left and reversing the democratic erosion which we are currently witnessing across Europe and the US are one and the same project.

By Danijela Dolenec

/ 17 Aug 2018

Expanding democracy through the commons

Since the commons simultaneously invoke the principles of ownership and of governance, they collapse the artificial distinction between the economic and political domains.

By Danijela Dolenec

/ 17 Mar 2016

Socialism and the Commons

Critique of the existing system has never been lacking on the Left. But, argues Danijela Dolenec, Elinor Ostrom's empirical work on the commons suggests another approach, one that seeks to discover the practical underpinnings of durable socialist organization. As Dolenec puts it, 'the design of in

By Danijela Dolenec

/ 31 Jul 2013