Rural, working-class voters are whipped up by an anti-immigrant firebrand who rails against corrupt elites. Sound familiar? Welcome to Austria’s presidential contest.
Bojan Bugaric
Bojan Bugaric is Professor of Law at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Bugarič served as Deputy Minister at the Ministry of the Interior in the Slovenian government from 2000-2004. He was a Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), in 1998 to 2000, and a Visiting Researcher at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University (2015). He holds a Doctor of Juridical Science degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Masters of Law from UCLA.
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