Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine
Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance
Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences
Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust
Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine
Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History
Luxembourg Centre for European Law
Luxembourg Centre for Socio-Environmental SystemsThe CONSENT BiH team
Principal Investigator
Prof. Josip Glaurdic is Full Professor of Political Science at the University of Luxembourg and a scholar of democracy, governance, and the political legacies of conflict. His research focuses on how war, political violence, and unresolved institutional arrangements shape democratic accountability, electoral competition, and state capacity over the long term. He was the Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded project Electoral Legacies of War, which combined historical analysis, large-scale quantitative data, and comparative research on post-conflict societies in Southeast Europe.
Within CONSENT BiH, he provides overall intellectual leadership and is responsible for the project’s conceptual framing, comparative grounding, and analytical integration. His work on post-war institutional endurance and democratic legitimacy directly informs the project’s core question: how citizen consent can be empirically assessed and translated into feasible constitutional alternatives in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He earned his PhD in political science from Yale University in 2009.
Co-Principal Investigator
Dr. Christophe Lesschaeve is a postdoctoral researcher in political science at the University of Luxembourg, specialising in democratic governance, political representation, and public opinion in Europe, with a particular focus on post-conflict and post-authoritarian contexts. His research draws extensively on comparative survey data and experimental methods to analyse how nationalism, populism, and major crises affect institutional trust and democratic attitudes.
In CONSENT BiH, he plays a central role in research design and empirical implementation, particularly in the development and analysis of the national survey and conjoint experiments. His expertise in measuring democratic preferences and identifying patterns of convergence and divergence across social groups is crucial for translating citizen attitudes into systematic evidence relevant for constitutional debate. He earned his PhD in political science from the University of Antwerp in 2017.
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Dr. Ensar MUHAREMOVIC
Senior Researcher
Dr. Ensar Muharemovic is a political scientist specialising in comparative politics, political discourse, and post-conflict governance, with particular expertise in Southeast Europe and EU enlargement contexts. His research examines how political narratives, institutional design, and elite strategies shape democratization and peacebuilding trajectories in societies emerging from conflict.
Within CONSENT BiH, he contributes qualitative and interpretive expertise, focusing on how constitutional questions are articulated, framed, and contested in political and public discourse. His work is particularly relevant for analysing focus group material and situating citizen preferences within broader patterns of post-conflict institutional development and political communication in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He earned his PhD in political science from the University of Luxembourg in 2024.
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Andjela MICANOVIC
Doctoral Researcher
Andjela Micanovic is a doctoral researcher in political science at the University of Luxembourg, specialising in European integration, geopolitics, and democratic backsliding in Southeast Europe. Her academic work is complemented by extensive professional experience in governmental and international institutions, including the Parliament of Montenegro, the Office for European Integration, UNHCR, and the EU Delegation.
In CONSENT BiH, she contributes both analytical and operational expertise. She is closely involved in the coordination of qualitative research, the translation of citizen language into survey instruments, and the policy-oriented interpretation of findings. Her background in EU accession processes and institutional reform provides an important bridge between empirical research and real-world governance constraints.
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Leo FEL
Doctoral Researcher
Leo Fel is a doctoral researcher at the University of Luxembourg working at the intersection of political science, law, and computer science. His research focuses on democratic institutions, election integrity, and the governance of digital innovation in democratic systems, with particular attention to how institutional design shapes participation and trust.
In the context of CONSENT BiH, he contributes methodological expertise related to constitutional politics, survey design, experimental logic, and data governance. His interdisciplinary background supports the project’s commitment to transparency, robustness, and careful handling of complex empirical data, particularly in the experimental stages of the research.
Doctoral Researcher
Mia Dzepina is a doctoral researcher in political science at the University of Luxembourg whose research examines how economic insecurity, health vulnerabilities, and perceptions of security influence democratic resilience and political behaviour across European societies. Her work combines comparative data analysis with policy-relevant interpretation.
Within CONSENT BiH, she contributes to focus groups conduct, as well as the analysis of how socio-economic and security-related factors intersect with constitutional preferences. Her expertise is particularly relevant for understanding how material conditions and perceived vulnerabilities shape citizens’ views on fairness, representation, and institutional trust in post-conflict settings.
Doctoral Researcher
Donada Rata is a doctoral researcher at the University of Luxembourg specialising in European Union enlargement, democratic conditionality, and institutional reform. Her academic work focuses on the relationship between EU governance frameworks and domestic democratic development, particularly in Southeast Europe.
In CONSENT BiH, she contributes comparative and policy-oriented perspectives on constitutional reform, drawing on her experience with civil society organisations and government institutions in the Western Balkans. Her work helps situate Bosnia and Herzegovina’s constitutional debate within broader regional and European trajectories of post-conflict governance and integration.