Stratos Patrikio
Biographic Data
| ID | 324778 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stratos Patrikio |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stratos |
| FAMILY NAME | Patrikio |
| SIGNATURE | PATRIKIO S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Strathclyde |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8716-1269 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 161 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The stars down to the ballot box: Heterodoxy and comparative electoral behaviour
Declining trends in civic participation and the growing success of anti-systemic parties reflect a crisis of democratic legitimacy unforeseen by popular readings of secularisation and modernisation theories. These readings expect the rise of rational, predominantly non-religious citizens and the parallel decline of conformist, religious citizens to strengthen democratic institutions. We update this popular approach, which is built on a dichotomy …
Righting the American Dream: How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan’s Evangelical Vision, by Diane WINSTON
Journal Article Righting the American Dream: How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan's Evangelical Vision, by DIANE WINSTON Get access Righting the American Dream: How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan's Evangelical Vision, by DIANE WINSTON. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023, 256 pp.; $35. Stratos Patrikios Stratos Patrikios University of Strathclyde, UK [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8716-1269 Search for other works by…
Neither religious nor rational: Heterodoxy and Institutional Trust
According to the optimistic reading of the trust deficit in contemporary democracies, an increasingly non-religious and presumably more rational citizenry is naturally inclined to distrust public institutions. This modern shift is viewed as a positive check that can supposedly improve representative government. This article proposes a more nuanced understanding of the influence of supernatural beliefs on institutional trust. Specifically, the art…
The formal rules of organised religion: A framework for empirical research
The ideal length of formal rules has been studied as a core preoccupation of firms and states.Shorter rules are a typical firm's response to performance pressures concerning efficiency; longer rules are a typical polity's solution to questions of political control and order.Very little is known in this respect about the rules of an institution that has been longer-lived and more influential than most firms and states: organised religion.Are the d…
New migrant activism: Frame alignment and future protest participation
New migrant movements increasingly rely on unconventional forms of protest, which they strategically frame in rational terms, rather than as ‘acts of desperation’ that dominate public representations. This article demonstrates this empirically through a prototypical case of new migrant activism, employing discourse analysis to explore the collective framing of a hunger strike involving irregular migrants in Greece, which was, however, contested b…
Ideological traditionalism and organisational innovation in Greek Orthodox ecclesiastical governance
Studies of church governance approach religious change either as ‘soft’ transformation (ideological and discursive adjustments implemented by clerical élites) or as ‘hard’ restructuring (shifts in organisational decision-making processes and administrative forms). This article illustrates that the joint, rather than separate, consideration of the two types of change provides a more nuanced description of the internal dynamics of religious organis…
Churches as firms: An exploration of regulatory similarities
Regulatory states manage religious activity within their jurisdiction in the same way they manage economic activity, in an alignment pattern that reflects institutionally embedded processes. Relying on regulatory institutional options to trace consistencies in the way a regime manages economic and religious activity, the article develops and tests theoretical accounts of the presence and content-in terms of comparative variation-of this alignment…
Religious market structure and democratic performance: Clientelism
Better the devil you know: Threat effects and attachment to the European Union
Dynastic Politics: Family Ties in the Greek Parliament, 2000–12
Fluctuations in the presence of dynastic politicians in national legislatures are seen as an important indicator of political modernisation. Drawing on original biographical details of Greek Members of Parliament (MPs) from the six most recent parliamentary terms, we document the existence of a substantial and relatively stable pool of dynastic MPs. Their numbers only appear to shrink, albeit not too dramatically, in the 2012 elections, which als…
Representative and Useful? An Empirical Assessment of the Representative Nature and Impact of the Scottish Youth Parliament
Youth parliaments provide a channel for young people to engage positively with the political system and benefit themselves and their communities. Using survey data of former members of the Scottish Youth Parliament (SYP), and comparing them with a variety of population data, the paper investigates whether the SYP is representative of the Scottish population, and whether engagement with the youth parliament has had an impact on members' personal a…
Attitudes towards School Choice and Faith Schools in the UK: A Question of Individual Preference or Collective Interest
As has been the case in a number of countries, parents in England have increasingly been given the opportunity to choose between different types of schools. Doing so is regarded as a way of meeting individual needs and improving academic standards. Faith-based schools long predate this move towards a more diversified educational system, but have come to be regarded as one of the ways of fulfilling the recent agenda. Drawing on social identity the…
Making Democracy Work by Early Formal Engagement? A Comparative Exploration of Youth Parliaments in the EU
Comparative trends in political participation in the West draw a pessimistic picture: younger generations tend to avoid formal politics, opting instead for radical forms of political engagement or opting out altogether from the political process. This trend poses an obvious threat to the core democratic idea of popular control of government. One remedy for this problem, proposed in recent years, has been the creation of youth parliaments. This ar…
Self-stereotyping as “Evangelical Republican: An Empirical Test
The prominence of evangelical Christians in the electoral base of the Republican Party is a noted feature of recent American elections. This prominence is linked to a key stereotype that saturates public discourse: “born-again/evangelical Republicanism.” The stereotype fuses religious and partisan social group membership to create a composite social label. Using a social categorization approach, which challenges the assumptions and methods of exi…
Religion, securitization and anti-immigration attitudes: The case of Greece
This article revisits securitization theory of the Copenhagen School by addressing an empirical overemphasis on political actors and offering a quantitative extension to typically qualitative assessments of the theory. Using Greece as a case study, it explores the dynamics of competition and the relative discursive power of two actors, political and religious elites, regarding migration. After first documenting a divergence in the two actors' rhe…
Religious Deprivatisation in Modern Greece
Comparative surveys suggest that generational replacement has negative implications for the future of religion in Europe. Using Greece as a critical case, it is argued here that focusing only on the aggregate levels of personal commitment can lead to such exaggerated pessimism. This note shifts empirical attention to show how religious authority remains relevant in society despite declining trends in individual religiosity. Preliminary findings a…
American Republican Religion? Disentangling the Causal Link Between Religion and Politics in the US
The Greek parliamentary election of 2007
American Republican Religion? Disentangling the Causal Link Between Religion and Politics in the US
Self-stereotyping as “Evangelical Republican: An Empirical Test
The prominence of evangelical Christians in the electoral base of the Republican Party is a noted feature of recent American elections. This prominence is linked to a key stereotype that saturates public discourse: “born-again/evangelical Republicanism.” The stereotype fuses religious and partisan social group membership to create a composite social label. Using a social categorization approach, which challenges the assumptions and methods of exi…
Religion, securitization and anti-immigration attitudes: The case of Greece
This article revisits securitization theory of the Copenhagen School by addressing an empirical overemphasis on political actors and offering a quantitative extension to typically qualitative assessments of the theory. Using Greece as a case study, it explores the dynamics of competition and the relative discursive power of two actors, political and religious elites, regarding migration. After first documenting a divergence in the two actors' rhe…
Making Democracy Work by Early Formal Engagement? A Comparative Exploration of Youth Parliaments in the EU
Comparative trends in political participation in the West draw a pessimistic picture: younger generations tend to avoid formal politics, opting instead for radical forms of political engagement or opting out altogether from the political process. This trend poses an obvious threat to the core democratic idea of popular control of government. One remedy for this problem, proposed in recent years, has been the creation of youth parliaments. This ar…
Dynastic Politics: Family Ties in the Greek Parliament, 2000–12
Fluctuations in the presence of dynastic politicians in national legislatures are seen as an important indicator of political modernisation. Drawing on original biographical details of Greek Members of Parliament (MPs) from the six most recent parliamentary terms, we document the existence of a substantial and relatively stable pool of dynastic MPs. Their numbers only appear to shrink, albeit not too dramatically, in the 2012 elections, which als…
Representative and Useful? An Empirical Assessment of the Representative Nature and Impact of the Scottish Youth Parliament
Youth parliaments provide a channel for young people to engage positively with the political system and benefit themselves and their communities. Using survey data of former members of the Scottish Youth Parliament (SYP), and comparing them with a variety of population data, the paper investigates whether the SYP is representative of the Scottish population, and whether engagement with the youth parliament has had an impact on members' personal a…
Attitudes towards School Choice and Faith Schools in the UK: A Question of Individual Preference or Collective Interest
As has been the case in a number of countries, parents in England have increasingly been given the opportunity to choose between different types of schools. Doing so is regarded as a way of meeting individual needs and improving academic standards. Faith-based schools long predate this move towards a more diversified educational system, but have come to be regarded as one of the ways of fulfilling the recent agenda. Drawing on social identity the…
Neither religious nor rational: Heterodoxy and Institutional Trust
According to the optimistic reading of the trust deficit in contemporary democracies, an increasingly non-religious and presumably more rational citizenry is naturally inclined to distrust public institutions. This modern shift is viewed as a positive check that can supposedly improve representative government. This article proposes a more nuanced understanding of the influence of supernatural beliefs on institutional trust. Specifically, the art…
New migrant activism: Frame alignment and future protest participation
New migrant movements increasingly rely on unconventional forms of protest, which they strategically frame in rational terms, rather than as ‘acts of desperation’ that dominate public representations. This article demonstrates this empirically through a prototypical case of new migrant activism, employing discourse analysis to explore the collective framing of a hunger strike involving irregular migrants in Greece, which was, however, contested b…
The Greek parliamentary election of 2007
Churches as firms: An exploration of regulatory similarities
Regulatory states manage religious activity within their jurisdiction in the same way they manage economic activity, in an alignment pattern that reflects institutionally embedded processes. Relying on regulatory institutional options to trace consistencies in the way a regime manages economic and religious activity, the article develops and tests theoretical accounts of the presence and content-in terms of comparative variation-of this alignment…
Religious market structure and democratic performance: Clientelism
Better the devil you know: Threat effects and attachment to the European Union
American Republican Religion? Disentangling the Causal Link Between Religion and Politics in the US
The Greek parliamentary election of 2007
Religious Deprivatisation in Modern Greece
Comparative surveys suggest that generational replacement has negative implications for the future of religion in Europe. Using Greece as a critical case, it is argued here that focusing only on the aggregate levels of personal commitment can lead to such exaggerated pessimism. This note shifts empirical attention to show how religious authority remains relevant in society despite declining trends in individual religiosity. Preliminary findings a…
Religion, securitization and anti-immigration attitudes: The case of Greece
This article revisits securitization theory of the Copenhagen School by addressing an empirical overemphasis on political actors and offering a quantitative extension to typically qualitative assessments of the theory. Using Greece as a case study, it explores the dynamics of competition and the relative discursive power of two actors, political and religious elites, regarding migration. After first documenting a divergence in the two actors' rhe…
Making Democracy Work by Early Formal Engagement? A Comparative Exploration of Youth Parliaments in the EU
Comparative trends in political participation in the West draw a pessimistic picture: younger generations tend to avoid formal politics, opting instead for radical forms of political engagement or opting out altogether from the political process. This trend poses an obvious threat to the core democratic idea of popular control of government. One remedy for this problem, proposed in recent years, has been the creation of youth parliaments. This ar…
Self-stereotyping as “Evangelical Republican: An Empirical Test
The prominence of evangelical Christians in the electoral base of the Republican Party is a noted feature of recent American elections. This prominence is linked to a key stereotype that saturates public discourse: “born-again/evangelical Republicanism.” The stereotype fuses religious and partisan social group membership to create a composite social label. Using a social categorization approach, which challenges the assumptions and methods of exi…
Representative and Useful? An Empirical Assessment of the Representative Nature and Impact of the Scottish Youth Parliament
Youth parliaments provide a channel for young people to engage positively with the political system and benefit themselves and their communities. Using survey data of former members of the Scottish Youth Parliament (SYP), and comparing them with a variety of population data, the paper investigates whether the SYP is representative of the Scottish population, and whether engagement with the youth parliament has had an impact on members' personal a…
Attitudes towards School Choice and Faith Schools in the UK: A Question of Individual Preference or Collective Interest
As has been the case in a number of countries, parents in England have increasingly been given the opportunity to choose between different types of schools. Doing so is regarded as a way of meeting individual needs and improving academic standards. Faith-based schools long predate this move towards a more diversified educational system, but have come to be regarded as one of the ways of fulfilling the recent agenda. Drawing on social identity the…
Better the devil you know: Threat effects and attachment to the European Union
Dynastic Politics: Family Ties in the Greek Parliament, 2000–12
Fluctuations in the presence of dynastic politicians in national legislatures are seen as an important indicator of political modernisation. Drawing on original biographical details of Greek Members of Parliament (MPs) from the six most recent parliamentary terms, we document the existence of a substantial and relatively stable pool of dynastic MPs. Their numbers only appear to shrink, albeit not too dramatically, in the 2012 elections, which als…
Religious market structure and democratic performance: Clientelism
Ideological traditionalism and organisational innovation in Greek Orthodox ecclesiastical governance
Studies of church governance approach religious change either as ‘soft’ transformation (ideological and discursive adjustments implemented by clerical élites) or as ‘hard’ restructuring (shifts in organisational decision-making processes and administrative forms). This article illustrates that the joint, rather than separate, consideration of the two types of change provides a more nuanced description of the internal dynamics of religious organis…
Churches as firms: An exploration of regulatory similarities
Regulatory states manage religious activity within their jurisdiction in the same way they manage economic activity, in an alignment pattern that reflects institutionally embedded processes. Relying on regulatory institutional options to trace consistencies in the way a regime manages economic and religious activity, the article develops and tests theoretical accounts of the presence and content-in terms of comparative variation-of this alignment…
New migrant activism: Frame alignment and future protest participation
New migrant movements increasingly rely on unconventional forms of protest, which they strategically frame in rational terms, rather than as ‘acts of desperation’ that dominate public representations. This article demonstrates this empirically through a prototypical case of new migrant activism, employing discourse analysis to explore the collective framing of a hunger strike involving irregular migrants in Greece, which was, however, contested b…
The formal rules of organised religion: A framework for empirical research
The ideal length of formal rules has been studied as a core preoccupation of firms and states.Shorter rules are a typical firm's response to performance pressures concerning efficiency; longer rules are a typical polity's solution to questions of political control and order.Very little is known in this respect about the rules of an institution that has been longer-lived and more influential than most firms and states: organised religion.Are the d…
Neither religious nor rational: Heterodoxy and Institutional Trust
According to the optimistic reading of the trust deficit in contemporary democracies, an increasingly non-religious and presumably more rational citizenry is naturally inclined to distrust public institutions. This modern shift is viewed as a positive check that can supposedly improve representative government. This article proposes a more nuanced understanding of the influence of supernatural beliefs on institutional trust. Specifically, the art…
Righting the American Dream: How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan’s Evangelical Vision, by Diane WINSTON
Journal Article Righting the American Dream: How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan's Evangelical Vision, by DIANE WINSTON Get access Righting the American Dream: How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan's Evangelical Vision, by DIANE WINSTON. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023, 256 pp.; $35. Stratos Patrikios Stratos Patrikios University of Strathclyde, UK [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8716-1269 Search for other works by…
The stars down to the ballot box: Heterodoxy and comparative electoral behaviour
Declining trends in civic participation and the growing success of anti-systemic parties reflect a crisis of democratic legitimacy unforeseen by popular readings of secularisation and modernisation theories. These readings expect the rise of rational, predominantly non-religious citizens and the parallel decline of conformist, religious citizens to strengthen democratic institutions. We update this popular approach, which is built on a dichotomy …
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