About

Vasiliki Georgiadou is a professor of political science at the Department of Political Science and History (Panteion University/Athens). She studied political science in Athens (Panteion) and in Münster/Germany (Institute of Politology) and holds a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Philosophy of the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster. Her research interests focus on far-right parties, populism, radicalism, violence and political extremism. She is the director and the president of the Directors Board of the National Centre for Social Research (EKKE) in Greece and the director of the Centre for Political Research at Panteion University.She is a member of the Editorial Board of Science and Society: Journal of Political and Moral Theory. She was a regular member of the National Council against Racism and Intolerance in Greece (2016-2019). She was Coordinator of the research program “Examining Xenophobia in Greece during the Economic Crisis: A Computational Perspective” (EEA-Grants) (2015–2017) and a researcher in the program “Low intensity violence in crisis-ridden Greece: Evidence from the far right and the far left” (LSE/Hellenic Observatory). She is now participating as a PI in the Horizon 2020 program “EnTrust. Enlightened Trust: An examination of trust and distrust in governance”.

Research Interests

Elections, Extremism, National Identity, Party Manifestos, Political Participation, Political Parties, Political Violence, Populism, Political Sociology, Identity, Electoral Behaviour, Mixed Methods, Political Activism, Voting Behaviour, Political Cultures

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Standing Groups and Research Networks

• Political Violence
• Political Parties
• Extremism and Democracy
• Political Psychology
• Political Sociology
• Southern European Politics