Yannis Papadopoulos
Born in Athens in 1960, Yannis Papadopoulos is a Greek and Swiss bi-national. He started his academic career at the University of Geneva, where he obtained his doctorate in political science in 1987. He has been since 1990 a professor of public policy at the Institut d'études politiques (IEP) of the University of Lausanne and is a member of the Laboratoire d'analyse de la gouvernance et de l'action publique en Europe (LAGAPE). He has also been a research director with the French CNRS, and a visiting professor at the European University Institute (Florence), Sciences Po. Paris, Ecole normale supérieure, LUISS Guido Carli, and in various Swiss, French and Greek universities. Besides, he has organised many international conferences, workshops, graduate schools and seminars, summer schools, etc.
Yannis’s research concentrates on the various implications of governance transformations for democracy and accountability. Despite seeing the obvious advantages of research specialization, he is concerned with the current segmentation of political science across subdisciplinary lines (political sociology, policy analysis, European studies, international relations…). He thinks that the only way to capture the full range of governance transformations in our democracies is to connect strands of research that seldom communicate, and that’s what he tries to undertake in his work.
Yannis has published several books, edited collections, and journal special issues. His books include (co-edited with Patrick Emmenegger, Flavia Fossati, Silja Häusermann, Pascal Sciarini and Adrian Vatter) The Oxford Handbook of Swiss Politics (Oxford University Press, 2024); Understanding Accountability in Democratic Governance (Cambridge University Press, 2023); Democracy in Crisis? Politics, Governance and Policy (Palgrave, 2013); and (co-edited with Deirdre Curtin and Peter Mair) Accountability and European Governance (Routledge, 2012). Yannis’s work has also been published in journals such as the European Journal of Political Research, Journal of European Public Policy, Governance, Regulation & Governance, West European Politics, European Law Journal, Politics and Society, Publius, International Review of Administrative Sciences, Administration & Society, Public Policy & Administration, Policy & Politics, Constellations, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy and other international outlets. His publications list can be accessed at
https://applicationspub.unil.ch/interpub/noauth/php/Un/UnPers.php?PerNum=3803&LanCode=37&menu=pub
Between 2005 and 2017 Yannis has been part of the Swiss « National Centre of Competence in Research » (NCCR) Challenges to democracy in the 21st century. He has been the director of the NCCR’s doctoral program and a member of the NCCR board. Yannis has also received research funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), the European Union (Connex « network of excellence », 6th framework-programme; Horizon 2020) the Volkswagen Foundation (Germany), and the NWO - Dutch National Science Foundation (for the critical synthesis of the research programme Shifts in Governance).
Yannis has been strongly involved in activities of service to the profession. He has been the co-editor of the European Journal of Political Research between 2012 and 2017. Between 2013 and 2021 he was a member of the research council of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), and continues to chair the SNF Starting grants panel in the social sciences. He also seats in the editorial and advisory boards of several journals and book series. He regularly reviews manuscripts for high-profile journals, and acts as an evaluator of research applications and academic institutions in many countries. Yannis has also chaired the Swiss political science association and the “Conseil de politique des sciences sociales” of the Swiss Academy of Human and Social Sciences. In 2016 he was a research fellow at St John's College in Oxford, and in 2017 a Fernand Braudel fellow at the European University Institute in Florence.
Phone: +41 21 692 31 40
Address: Laboratoire d'analyse de la gouvernance et de l'action publique en Europe (LAGAPE)
Universite de Lausanne
Geopolis
UNIL
CH-1015 Lausanne (Switzerland)
Yannis’s research concentrates on the various implications of governance transformations for democracy and accountability. Despite seeing the obvious advantages of research specialization, he is concerned with the current segmentation of political science across subdisciplinary lines (political sociology, policy analysis, European studies, international relations…). He thinks that the only way to capture the full range of governance transformations in our democracies is to connect strands of research that seldom communicate, and that’s what he tries to undertake in his work.
Yannis has published several books, edited collections, and journal special issues. His books include (co-edited with Patrick Emmenegger, Flavia Fossati, Silja Häusermann, Pascal Sciarini and Adrian Vatter) The Oxford Handbook of Swiss Politics (Oxford University Press, 2024); Understanding Accountability in Democratic Governance (Cambridge University Press, 2023); Democracy in Crisis? Politics, Governance and Policy (Palgrave, 2013); and (co-edited with Deirdre Curtin and Peter Mair) Accountability and European Governance (Routledge, 2012). Yannis’s work has also been published in journals such as the European Journal of Political Research, Journal of European Public Policy, Governance, Regulation & Governance, West European Politics, European Law Journal, Politics and Society, Publius, International Review of Administrative Sciences, Administration & Society, Public Policy & Administration, Policy & Politics, Constellations, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy and other international outlets. His publications list can be accessed at
https://applicationspub.unil.ch/interpub/noauth/php/Un/UnPers.php?PerNum=3803&LanCode=37&menu=pub
Between 2005 and 2017 Yannis has been part of the Swiss « National Centre of Competence in Research » (NCCR) Challenges to democracy in the 21st century. He has been the director of the NCCR’s doctoral program and a member of the NCCR board. Yannis has also received research funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), the European Union (Connex « network of excellence », 6th framework-programme; Horizon 2020) the Volkswagen Foundation (Germany), and the NWO - Dutch National Science Foundation (for the critical synthesis of the research programme Shifts in Governance).
Yannis has been strongly involved in activities of service to the profession. He has been the co-editor of the European Journal of Political Research between 2012 and 2017. Between 2013 and 2021 he was a member of the research council of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), and continues to chair the SNF Starting grants panel in the social sciences. He also seats in the editorial and advisory boards of several journals and book series. He regularly reviews manuscripts for high-profile journals, and acts as an evaluator of research applications and academic institutions in many countries. Yannis has also chaired the Swiss political science association and the “Conseil de politique des sciences sociales” of the Swiss Academy of Human and Social Sciences. In 2016 he was a research fellow at St John's College in Oxford, and in 2017 a Fernand Braudel fellow at the European University Institute in Florence.
Phone: +41 21 692 31 40
Address: Laboratoire d'analyse de la gouvernance et de l'action publique en Europe (LAGAPE)
Universite de Lausanne
Geopolis
UNIL
CH-1015 Lausanne (Switzerland)
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