Takis S. Pappas

Takis S. Pappas was born and raised in Elefsina. He graduated from the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and served part of his military service in the so-called Gulf War. Following his studies in the United States (PhD, Yale), he pursued an academic career in Greece. In 2010, he settled with his family in France and eventually resigned from his post at the Greek university. He currently works as an author and visiting professor at the Central European University in Budapest. He also holds the title of docent at the University of Helsinki in Finland.

He has taught at the universities of Athens, Strasbourg, Oslo, Freiburg and Luxembourg. He has held research positions at Princeton University and the European University Institute in Florence, where he was a Marie Curie Fellow from 2011 to 2013. In addition to dozens of articles in leading international academic journals, she has authored the books *Making Party Democracy in Greece* (Palgrave Macmillan 1999), *The Charismatic Party: PASOK, Papandreou, Power* (Patakis 2009), Populism and Crisis Politics in Greece (Palgrave 2014), Populism and Crisis in Greece (Ikaros 2015), and has co-edited with H. Kriesi European Populism in the Shadow of the Great Recession (ECPR Press 2015). His next book, entitled Democratic Illiberalism: How Populism Grows to Menace Democracy, will be available shortly.