Takis S Pappas holds a PhD from Yale and is a Greek author and researcher currently affiliated with the University of Helsinki. He formerly served as a comparative politics professor at the University of Thessaloniki and has held academic positions at multiple institutions including Strasbourg, Oslo, Freiburg, Luxembourg, Central European University in Budapest, European University Institute in Florence, Yale, and Princeton. His published works include Making Party Democracy in Greece (Macmillan 1999), The Charismatic Party: PASOK, Papandreou, Power (2009), Populism and Crisis Politics in Greece (Palgrave 2014), On the Tightrope: National Crises and Brinkmanship in Greece (2017), Populism and Liberal Democracy: A Comparative and Theoretical Analysis (Oxford University Press 2019), and co-edited European Populism in the Shadow of the Great Recession (ECPR Press 2015). He is currently developing a book examining challengers of European liberal democracy, contributes as a columnist to Kathimerini newspaper, serves as a TED-Ed educator on populism, and maintains a blog on populism and democracy. He divides his time between Brussels and Athens.
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