Konstantina Maragkou
Biographic Data
| ID | 3095806 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Konstantina Maragkou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Konstantina |
| FAMILY NAME | Maragkou |
| SIGNATURE | MARAGKOU K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5456-6435 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Tracing the origins of teacher gender bias
This paper examines whether teachers form gendered expectations that deviate from students’ actual academic performance. We exploit a unique institutional setting in England, where university admissions rely on teacher-predicted grades, and use rich administrative data linking student performance and teacher assessments across multiple STEM and non-STEM subjects. We find that, conditional on achieved grades, teachers systematically predict lower …
From Hard Politics to Human Rights
Student sociodemographic and school type differences in teacher-predicted vs. achieved grades for university admission
In England, students apply to universities using teacher-predicted grades instead of their final end-of-school A-level examination results. Predicted rather than achieved grades therefore determine how ambitiously students apply to and receive offers from the most selective courses. The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) encourages teachers to make optimistic predictions to motivate students to apply ambitiously and achieve highe…
No Budge for any Nudge
Despite increasing efforts to improve their access, students facing socio-economic disadvantages are still underrepresented in UK higher education. In this paper, we study whether behavioural nudging with information provision through text messages, embedded within a larger programme of widening participation activities, can be effective at increasing higher education application rates. We conducted two randomised control trials in which final ye…
Socio-economic inequality and academic match among post-compulsory education participants
The CSCE and the End of the Cold War
This collection of essays on diplomacy, societies and human rights spanning the early 1970s to the end of the Cold War enriches the recently mushrooming literature on the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) that led to the signing of the Helsinki Accords. The inclusion of diverse prisms through which the effect of this multilateral negotiation is considered adds significant, original contributions to the theme. The various per…
The Relevance of Détente to American Foreign Policy
This article contributes to the historiography of détente from an original viewpoint, namely the relationship between the United States and Greece. It substantiates the argument that the supposed spirit of détente did not help lessen American realpolitik considerations concerning Greece and its surrounding geostrategic region; in fact, the more Cold War antagonisms intensified in the region, the more Greece was locked in the morass of superpower …
The Wilson Government’s Responses to ‘The Rape of Greek Democracy’
This article is a contribution to the analysis of the era of the Greek Colonels, whose military regime ruled Greece between 1967 and 1974. In particular, it seeks to examine one of its less explored aspects, namely the British authorities’ reactions to the news of the coup. It aims to expose underutilized archival evidence proving that the British government, despite its undisputed dislike of the regime’s dictatorial features, did little to avert…
Favouritism in Nato's Southeastern flank
The aim of this paper is to analyse the effect of the Cold War era on a historic event with serious consequences for Greece, namely the Greek Colonels' regime, which lasted between April 1967 and July 1974. Greece, due to its strategic position, served as guarantor of stability in NATO's southeastern flank, a benefit that the alliance considered indispensable to its strength, therefore impossible to compromise. In the light of this consideration,…
The Foreign Factor and the Greek Colonels’ Coming to Power on 21 April 1967
This paper is offered as a contribution to the analysis of one of the most significant episodes in Greece’s modern history, namely the Colonels’ Coup. The unexplored aspect on which it intends to throw light involves the examination of the widespread hypotheses regarding foreign complicity in the coming to power of the Greek Colonels. It seeks to account for the extent to which foreign powers had any foreknowledge of the coup, and also aspires to…
The Wilson Government’s Responses to ‘The Rape of Greek Democracy’
This article is a contribution to the analysis of the era of the Greek Colonels, whose military regime ruled Greece between 1967 and 1974. In particular, it seeks to examine one of its less explored aspects, namely the British authorities’ reactions to the news of the coup. It aims to expose underutilized archival evidence proving that the British government, despite its undisputed dislike of the regime’s dictatorial features, did little to avert…
Favouritism in Nato's Southeastern flank
The aim of this paper is to analyse the effect of the Cold War era on a historic event with serious consequences for Greece, namely the Greek Colonels' regime, which lasted between April 1967 and July 1974. Greece, due to its strategic position, served as guarantor of stability in NATO's southeastern flank, a benefit that the alliance considered indispensable to its strength, therefore impossible to compromise. In the light of this consideration,…
The Relevance of Détente to American Foreign Policy
This article contributes to the historiography of détente from an original viewpoint, namely the relationship between the United States and Greece. It substantiates the argument that the supposed spirit of détente did not help lessen American realpolitik considerations concerning Greece and its surrounding geostrategic region; in fact, the more Cold War antagonisms intensified in the region, the more Greece was locked in the morass of superpower …
The Foreign Factor and the Greek Colonels’ Coming to Power on 21 April 1967
This paper is offered as a contribution to the analysis of one of the most significant episodes in Greece’s modern history, namely the Colonels’ Coup. The unexplored aspect on which it intends to throw light involves the examination of the widespread hypotheses regarding foreign complicity in the coming to power of the Greek Colonels. It seeks to account for the extent to which foreign powers had any foreknowledge of the coup, and also aspires to…
Favouritism in Nato's Southeastern flank
The aim of this paper is to analyse the effect of the Cold War era on a historic event with serious consequences for Greece, namely the Greek Colonels' regime, which lasted between April 1967 and July 1974. Greece, due to its strategic position, served as guarantor of stability in NATO's southeastern flank, a benefit that the alliance considered indispensable to its strength, therefore impossible to compromise. In the light of this consideration,…
The Wilson Government’s Responses to ‘The Rape of Greek Democracy’
This article is a contribution to the analysis of the era of the Greek Colonels, whose military regime ruled Greece between 1967 and 1974. In particular, it seeks to examine one of its less explored aspects, namely the British authorities’ reactions to the news of the coup. It aims to expose underutilized archival evidence proving that the British government, despite its undisputed dislike of the regime’s dictatorial features, did little to avert…
The Relevance of Détente to American Foreign Policy
This article contributes to the historiography of détente from an original viewpoint, namely the relationship between the United States and Greece. It substantiates the argument that the supposed spirit of détente did not help lessen American realpolitik considerations concerning Greece and its surrounding geostrategic region; in fact, the more Cold War antagonisms intensified in the region, the more Greece was locked in the morass of superpower …
Socio-economic inequality and academic match among post-compulsory education participants
The CSCE and the End of the Cold War
This collection of essays on diplomacy, societies and human rights spanning the early 1970s to the end of the Cold War enriches the recently mushrooming literature on the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) that led to the signing of the Helsinki Accords. The inclusion of diverse prisms through which the effect of this multilateral negotiation is considered adds significant, original contributions to the theme. The various per…
No Budge for any Nudge
Despite increasing efforts to improve their access, students facing socio-economic disadvantages are still underrepresented in UK higher education. In this paper, we study whether behavioural nudging with information provision through text messages, embedded within a larger programme of widening participation activities, can be effective at increasing higher education application rates. We conducted two randomised control trials in which final ye…
Student sociodemographic and school type differences in teacher-predicted vs. achieved grades for university admission
In England, students apply to universities using teacher-predicted grades instead of their final end-of-school A-level examination results. Predicted rather than achieved grades therefore determine how ambitiously students apply to and receive offers from the most selective courses. The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) encourages teachers to make optimistic predictions to motivate students to apply ambitiously and achieve highe…
From Hard Politics to Human Rights
Tracing the origins of teacher gender bias
This paper examines whether teachers form gendered expectations that deviate from students’ actual academic performance. We exploit a unique institutional setting in England, where university admissions rely on teacher-predicted grades, and use rich administrative data linking student performance and teacher assessments across multiple STEM and non-STEM subjects. We find that, conditional on achieved grades, teachers systematically predict lower …
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · School Choice and Performance (4 works) · Balkan and Eastern European Studies (3 works)