Takis S. Pappas

Takis S. Pappas (Ph.D., Yale) was born and raised in Eleusis. He graduated from the Law School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and served part of his military service during the so-called Gulf War. After his studies in the United States (Ph.D., Yale), he pursued an academic career in Greece. In 2010, he relocated with his family to France and eventually resigned from his position at the Greek university. Today, he works as a writer and visiting professor at the Central European University in Budapest. He also holds the title of docent at the University of Helsinki in Finland. He has taught at the universities of Athens, Strasbourg, Oslo, Freiburg, and Luxembourg. He held research positions at Princeton University and the European University Institute in Florence, where he was a Marie Curie Fellow from 2011 to 2013. In addition to dozens of articles in leading international academic journals, he has authored the books "Making Party Democracy in Greece" (Palgrave Macmillan 1999), "The Charismatic Party: PASOK, Papandreou, Power" (Patakis 2009), "Populism and Crisis Politics in Greece" (Palgrave 2014), "Populism and Crisis in Greece" (Ikaros 2015), and co-edited with H. Kriesi "European Populism in the Shadow of the Great Recession" (ECPR Press 2015). His next book, titled "Democratic Illiberalism: How Populism Grows to Menace Democracy," will be available soon.