Takis S. Pappas
Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow, European Institutions and Policies; Researcher, University of HelsinkiTakis S Pappas (PhD, Yale) is a former professor of comparative politics at the University of Macedonia, Greece.
He has held teaching appointments at the universities of Strasbourg, Oslo, Freiburg, Luxembourg, Helsinki, and the Central European University in both Budapest and Vienna.
He has authored the books Making Party Democracy in Greece (1999), The Charismatic Party: PASOK, Papandreou, Power (in Greek, 2009), Populism and Crisis Politics in Greece (2014; translated in Greek, 2015), European Populism in the Shadow of the Great Recession (coedited with H-P Kriesi, 2015), On the Tightrope: National Crises and Brinkmanship in Greece from Trikoupis to Tsipras (2017, in Greek), Populism and Liberal Democracy: A Comparative and Theoretical Analysis (2019), Paradoxical Country: Why Greece Lags Behind Ireland and Portugal and What Can We Learn From Them (in Greek, 2024) and Explaining Trump (forthcoming in Greek, fall 2025).
He is a regular columnist in Greek newspaper Kathimerini and lives between Brussels, Belgium, and Athens, Greece.
