Kostas A. Lavdas

Born in Athens, Greece, Kostas A. Lavdas was educated in Greece, the UK, and the USA. Currently he is Professor of European Politics at Panteion University of Athens. He was previously Professor of Political Science and Director of the Crete Center for Political Research and Documentation (KEPET) at the University of Crete, where he also served as Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs. In 2007-2009 and again in 2014-2016 he was the Constantine Karamanlis Professor of Hellenic and European Studies at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, USA, and in 2009 he was a Senior Research Fellow at the European Institute, The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

He has published extensively in English, German and Greek on European politics, Greek politics and public policy, comparative interest group politics and applied political theory. He has taught (as a Professor, an Associate Professor and a Senior Lecturer) and researched (as a Senior Research Fellow and a Research Associate) at various universities and research centers in Europe and the USA.

His publications include the books The Europeanization of Greece: Interest Politics and the Crises of Integration (London / New York: Macmillan / St Martin's Press, 1997), Politics, Subsidies and Competition: The New Politics of State Intervention in the European Union (with M. Mendrinou) (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 1999), Interests and Politics: Interest Organization and Patterns of Governance (in Greek) (Athens: Papazisis, 2004), Politics between the Potential and the Familiar (in Greek) (Athens: Sideris, 2010), A Republic of Europeans: Civic Potential in a Liberal Milieu (with D. Chryssochoou) (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2011), America: Political Development, Democracy and Extroversion in the USA (in Greek) (Athens: Papazisis, 2012), Stateness and Sovereign Debt: Greece in the European Conundrum (with S. Litsas and D. Skiadas) (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013), Citizens' Liberalism (Athens: Papazisis, 2015), several chapters in edited volumes (including Reforming Europe, The Political Economy of Privatization, Verbaende und Verbandssysteme in Westeuropa, Republicanism in Theory and Practice, The New Balkans, Greece's Horizons) and several papers in international refereed journals (including the European Journal of Political Research, West European Politics, Journal of Political and Military Sociology, Politics).