Takis S. Pappas is a Visiting Professor at the Central European University, and has recently authored Populism and Crisis Politics in Greece (Palgrave 2014) and co-authored European Populism in the Shadow of the Great Recession (ECPR Press 2015).
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Published in: HomeDonald Trump defines the term, authentic populistPopulism, in other words, is the idea of a certain democracy in which illiberalism trumps liberalism.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Populist hegemony in GreeceThe electoral victory of Tsipras over his political opponents signifies the triumph of energetic populism over...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?What is at stake in the Greek referendum?How will Greece be able to fix its economy in a desert landscape, with no appetite for reforms, without helpful...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Not so strange bedfellows: making sense of the coalition between Syriza and the Independent GreeksHow do we make sense of the seemingly incongruous coalition between Syriza and the Independent Greeks?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Carry on Sisyphus: short answers on Greece’s post-electoral politicsPerhaps paradoxically, Greece’s real problem is primarily political, not economic, and its name is “populism.”
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Who is Alexis Tsipras?Who exactly is Alexis Tsipras, the man who may very well become Greece's next prime minister?