Takis Pappas

Takis S Pappas (PhD, Yale) is a Greek author and researcher currently associated with the University of Helsinki, Finland. Formerly a professor of comparative politics at the University of Thessaloniki, Greece, he has also held teaching and research appointments at the universities of Strasbourg, Oslo, Freiburg, Luxembourg, Central European University in Budapest, European University Institute in Florence, Yale, and Princeton. Among his books are Making Party Democracy in Greece (Macmillan 1999), The Charismatic Party: PASOK, Papandreou, Power (2009, in Greek), Populism and Crisis Politics in Greece (Palgrave 2014), On the Tightrope: National Crises and Brinkmanship in Greece (2017, in Greek), Populism and Liberal Democracy: A Comparative and Theoretical Analysis (Oxford University Press, 2019), and the co-edited volume European Populism in the Shadow of the Great Recession (ECPR Press, 2015). Takis is currently at work on a new book project on the challengers of European liberal democracy. He is a regular columnist in major Greek newspaper Kathimerini, a TED-Ed educator on populism, and a blogger writing about populism and democracy. He shares his time between Brussels, Belgium, and Athens, Greece.