Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos

Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos

Professor of Political Science

National Kapodistrrian University Athens, Greece

Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Senior Research Fellow at the ELIAMEP research foundation (Athens) and research associate of the Hellenic Observatory of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He has been visiting fellow at the LSE, St. Antony’s College, Oxford, the “Sciences Po”, Paris, Harvard’s Center of European Studies, Princeton’s Center for Hellenic Studies, and the R. Schuman Centre of the European University Institute in Florence. He has taught at the Instituto Juan March (Madrid) and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University). He serves on the editorial board of the journals South European Society and Politics, Mediterranean Politics, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies. Dimitri does research in comparative politics and has published on contemporary Greek, South European and Balkan politics, focusing on democratization, public administration, civil society, education, and the welfare state. His publications include 6 monographs, 4 books and 10 edited or co-edited volumes in Greek and English. He has co-edited (with K. Featherstone) The Oxford Handbook of Modern Greek Politics (Oxford: OUP, 2020). His latest book is The Irregular Pendulum of Democracy: Populism, Clientelism, and Corruption in Post-Yugoslav Successor States (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023). He has studied law, sociology, and political science at the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (LLB), the LSE (MSc) and Yale University (MA, M.Phil., and Ph.D., awarded with distinction, 1991).