Dr. Nemanja Batrićević

Dr. Nemanja Batrićević is a teaching associate at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Montenegro. He earned his MA and PhD in Comparative Politics at Central European University (CEU) in Budapest. As part of his doctoral studies, he received additional training at Yale University. His primary academic interests include voter behavior, the psychology of intergroup relations, ethnopolitics/nationalism, and advanced quantitative methods in political research.

He is part of the research teams for the Montenegrin National Election Study (MNES) and the European Social Survey (ESS Waves 9 and 10). During his doctoral studies, he served as President of the Political Behavior Research Group (PolBERG) and was a teaching assistant at the ECPR Methods Schools, contributing to courses on Causal Inference in the Social Sciences and Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling. He is the recipient of the Morton Deutsch Award (2018) from the International Society for Social Justice Research

Selected publications:

Batrićević, N., Vujović, Z., & Janković, U. (2024). Intergroup hostility, perceived democratic legitimacy, and satisfaction with democracy in multi-ethnic societies. Democratization, 1-26.

• Vuković, Ivan, and Nemanja Batrićević (2022). “Party Politics in Montenegro: In the Shadow of the Statehood Issue.” Party Politics in European Microstates. Routledge, 2022. 146-162.
• Nemčok, M., Komar, O., Batrićević, N., Tóth, M., & Spáč, P. (2021). The role of ethnicity in the perception of pork barrel politics: Evidence from a survey experiment in Slovakia. Politics, 41(2), 257-275.
• Batrićević, Nemanja, and Levente Littvay. “A genetic basis of economic egalitarianism.” Social Justice Research30 (2017): 408-437.
• Batrićević, Nemanja. “Tribal Politics in the Balkans: Elections and Nation-Building in Montenegro.” Europe-Asia Studies7 (2023): 1094-1120.