Theofanis Exadaktylos
Biographic Data
| ID | 4381206 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Theofanis Exadaktylos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Theofanis |
| FAMILY NAME | Exadaktylos |
| SIGNATURE | EXADAKTYLOS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Surrey |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3045-2107 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 247 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Mapping the changing role of expertise in Covid-19 politics in Europe
During major national crises countries experience a ‘rally round the flag’ effect, where citizens, societal groups and politicians put aside mundane conflicts to stand united against a common threat. This shift to depoliticised policymaking was indeed observed in many European countries during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic from 2020 onwards. Subsequently it noted how politics involving COVID-19 were then (re)politicised, typically when lo…
Advancing the operationalization of national policy styles
While national policy styles have (re)gained academic attention in recent comparative public policy work, the concept still needs a widely accepted operationalization that can allow the collection and analysis of data across contexts while steering away from construct validity threats. We build on Tosun and Howlett's (2022) work and employ a mixed‐methods approach, which relies on exploratory factor analysis and hierarchical cluster analysis. We …
Policy styles and political trust in Europe’s national responses to the Covid-19 crisis
Why do countries respond differently when they face the same pandemic? In this article, we comparatively investigate the effects of policy styles in shaping responses to the COVID-19 crisis in two European countries: Greece and Sweden. Extending the concept of policy styles to extraordinary policymaking, we argue that political trust and policy styles result in national responses that range from centralization to decentralization. The combination…
Hacking Directional Dependency in Research Design for EU Studies
EU studies extend into political science, political theory, public and foreign policy analysis, and international relations. The field's diversity speaks to different ontological, epistemological and methodological traditions and research practices. How the EU is conceived as a political reality and entity (ontology) tends to shape how researchers substantiate knowledge production about EU affairs (epistemology) and the way they uncover this know…
The EU at Crossroads: 2022 As a Turning Point Year
Policy Styles and Trust in the Age of Pandemics: Global Threat, National Responses
This chapter examines the Brazilian government responses to the health crisis, covering the first year of the pandemic. In the re-democratization process, intergovernmental relations changed, starting from the decline of authoritarian rule and culminating in the new 1988 Constitution, when Brazil returned to a cooperative federalism after years of institutional darkness under the military dictatorship. Since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, c…
Assessing the effectiveness of public health interventions for Covid‐19 in Greece and Cyprus
In this article, we statistically examine the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) implemented by the national governments of Greece and Cyprus during 2020 to (a) limit the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and (b) mitigate the economic fallout brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic. Applying a modified health belief model, we hypothesize that behavioral outcomes at the policy level are a function of NPIs, perceived severity, an…
When emotions run high: Affective responses to crises in Europe
From Crisis to Crisis: The EU in between the Covid, Energy and Inflation Crises (and War)
Whose Opinion Is It? Public Debates and Repertoires of Action in Greece During the First Covid-19 Lockdown Period
To what extent do public health crises create unity or polarise the public sphere? We investigate the development and dynamics of the public debate in Greece in light of Covid-19 to detect polarisation within the public sphere. We cover the first wave of the pandemic (March-May 2020), assessing reactions to government measures. In times of crises, the public looks for shortcuts in the media to assess the overabundance of information and digest th…
Anna DurnovÁ, Understanding Emotions in Post-Factual Politics: Negotiating Truth
For many years, the validity of facts and the role of science have been brought into doubt. Every time there is a new discovery, established knowledge and established interests are being challenged. In fact, in the course of history, the disregard for expert opinion and knowledge has led to the establishment of alternative facts that lead to fallacious inferences. This disregard is not a grassroots tendency, but often a top-down strategy by polit…
A Year like no Other: Hope out of Despair
Calm before the Storm? 2019 in Perspective
At the end of our 2018 Annual Review editorial we reflected on a tough year for the EU, arguing that it was sailing through troubled waters into an unknown direction (Exadaktylos et al., 2019). The waves of populism and right-wing extremism were sweeping across Europe, the negotiations around Brexit were a political drama not only at the European but also at the British level, and EU leaders were looking to re-infuse trust in the euro, EU institu…
A more capable EU? Assessing the role of the EU’s institutions in defence capability development
Are EU institutions able to perform their preferred role within defence capability development? Highlighting increased demands for a stronger EU role in security, we explore how EU institutions have promoted their role within CSDP. Using role theory, we investigate the European Commission, the EDA, the EEAS and the European Parliament’s ability to promote pooled and shared defence resources in European capability development. We argue that this d…
Sailing through Troubled Waters and towards ‘Someplace
Gender, ownership and engagement during the European Union referendum: Gendered frames and the reproduction of binaries
The European Union referendum was supposed to be a significant moment for political engagement and ownership in the UK. This article looks at how the two official European Union referendum campaigns (Vote Leave and Remain) framed discussions about the UK’s membership of the European Union, as well as the impact of the campaign on women’s political activation. Using data from a survey questionnaire conducted two weeks after the European Union refe…
Feeling the pulse of the Greek debt crisis: Affect on the web of blame
This article examines the affective content of Greek media representations of the debt crisis, from 2009 to 2012. We analyze the content of opinion pieces from journalists, experts and public intellectuals published in Greek newspapers, and identify their affective tone towards political actors and institutions. We focus on anger, fear and hope, and identify blame attribution frames, which underpin the public's trust and confidence in domestic an…
Policies that Succeed and Programs that Fail: Ambiguity, Conflict, and Crisis in Greek Higher Education
Why do some policies adopted by a wide margin fail to be implemented? Highlighting the role of policy entrepreneurial strategies within the Multiple Streams Approach (MSA), we examine the implementation of Greek higher education reform in 2011 to argue that when policies adversely affect the status quo, successful entrepreneurial strategies of issue‐linkage and framing, side payments, and institutional rule manipulation are more likely to lead to…
Quid pro Quo: Political Trust and Policy Implementation in G reece during the Age of Austerity
Why do national governments fail to implement deep reforms in light of strong international and E uropean pressures? Building on the top‐down implementation framework by M azmanian and S abatier, we argue that political trust underpins the government's implementation track record. We investigate this argument by looking at the failure of the G reek government to implement bailout reforms between 2010 and 2012 in two areas: tax and duty collection…
Greece in Crisis: Austerity, Populism and the Politics of Blame
Within the broader debate on the Greek crisis, the theory of ‘populist democracy’ postulates that populism is fundamental to the sustenance of the Greek political system and is at the heart of Greece's endemic domestic weaknesses. This article tests this assumption empirically through the use of a sophisticated framing analysis of speeches delivered by the leaders of the five parties in the Greek parliament in the period 2009–11. The findings con…
Research Design in European Studies: The Case of Europeanization
In this article, we contribute to the debate on research design and causal analysis in European integration studies by considering the sub‐field of Europeanization. First, we examine the awareness of research design issues in the literature on Europeanization through a review of the debate on causality, concept formation and methods. Second, we analyse how much of the discussion of the trade‐offs in causal analysis in mainstream political science…
Europe's Troubled Region: Economic Development, Institutional Reform and Social Welfare in the Western Balkans – By W. Bartlett
Greece in Crisis: Austerity, Populism and the Politics of Blame
Within the broader debate on the Greek crisis, the theory of ‘populist democracy’ postulates that populism is fundamental to the sustenance of the Greek political system and is at the heart of Greece's endemic domestic weaknesses. This article tests this assumption empirically through the use of a sophisticated framing analysis of speeches delivered by the leaders of the five parties in the Greek parliament in the period 2009–11. The findings con…
Policies that Succeed and Programs that Fail: Ambiguity, Conflict, and Crisis in Greek Higher Education
Why do some policies adopted by a wide margin fail to be implemented? Highlighting the role of policy entrepreneurial strategies within the Multiple Streams Approach (MSA), we examine the implementation of Greek higher education reform in 2011 to argue that when policies adversely affect the status quo, successful entrepreneurial strategies of issue‐linkage and framing, side payments, and institutional rule manipulation are more likely to lead to…
Research Design in European Studies: The Case of Europeanization
In this article, we contribute to the debate on research design and causal analysis in European integration studies by considering the sub‐field of Europeanization. First, we examine the awareness of research design issues in the literature on Europeanization through a review of the debate on causality, concept formation and methods. Second, we analyse how much of the discussion of the trade‐offs in causal analysis in mainstream political science…
When emotions run high: Affective responses to crises in Europe
Policy styles and political trust in Europe’s national responses to the Covid-19 crisis
Why do countries respond differently when they face the same pandemic? In this article, we comparatively investigate the effects of policy styles in shaping responses to the COVID-19 crisis in two European countries: Greece and Sweden. Extending the concept of policy styles to extraordinary policymaking, we argue that political trust and policy styles result in national responses that range from centralization to decentralization. The combination…
Feeling the pulse of the Greek debt crisis: Affect on the web of blame
This article examines the affective content of Greek media representations of the debt crisis, from 2009 to 2012. We analyze the content of opinion pieces from journalists, experts and public intellectuals published in Greek newspapers, and identify their affective tone towards political actors and institutions. We focus on anger, fear and hope, and identify blame attribution frames, which underpin the public's trust and confidence in domestic an…
A more capable EU? Assessing the role of the EU’s institutions in defence capability development
Are EU institutions able to perform their preferred role within defence capability development? Highlighting increased demands for a stronger EU role in security, we explore how EU institutions have promoted their role within CSDP. Using role theory, we investigate the European Commission, the EDA, the EEAS and the European Parliament’s ability to promote pooled and shared defence resources in European capability development. We argue that this d…
Quid pro Quo: Political Trust and Policy Implementation in G reece during the Age of Austerity
Why do national governments fail to implement deep reforms in light of strong international and E uropean pressures? Building on the top‐down implementation framework by M azmanian and S abatier, we argue that political trust underpins the government's implementation track record. We investigate this argument by looking at the failure of the G reek government to implement bailout reforms between 2010 and 2012 in two areas: tax and duty collection…
Mapping the changing role of expertise in Covid-19 politics in Europe
During major national crises countries experience a ‘rally round the flag’ effect, where citizens, societal groups and politicians put aside mundane conflicts to stand united against a common threat. This shift to depoliticised policymaking was indeed observed in many European countries during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic from 2020 onwards. Subsequently it noted how politics involving COVID-19 were then (re)politicised, typically when lo…
From Crisis to Crisis: The EU in between the Covid, Energy and Inflation Crises (and War)
Calm before the Storm? 2019 in Perspective
At the end of our 2018 Annual Review editorial we reflected on a tough year for the EU, arguing that it was sailing through troubled waters into an unknown direction (Exadaktylos et al., 2019). The waves of populism and right-wing extremism were sweeping across Europe, the negotiations around Brexit were a political drama not only at the European but also at the British level, and EU leaders were looking to re-infuse trust in the euro, EU institu…
Sailing through Troubled Waters and towards ‘Someplace
Gender, ownership and engagement during the European Union referendum: Gendered frames and the reproduction of binaries
The European Union referendum was supposed to be a significant moment for political engagement and ownership in the UK. This article looks at how the two official European Union referendum campaigns (Vote Leave and Remain) framed discussions about the UK’s membership of the European Union, as well as the impact of the campaign on women’s political activation. Using data from a survey questionnaire conducted two weeks after the European Union refe…
Assessing the effectiveness of public health interventions for Covid‐19 in Greece and Cyprus
In this article, we statistically examine the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) implemented by the national governments of Greece and Cyprus during 2020 to (a) limit the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and (b) mitigate the economic fallout brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic. Applying a modified health belief model, we hypothesize that behavioral outcomes at the policy level are a function of NPIs, perceived severity, an…
A Year like no Other: Hope out of Despair
Europe's Troubled Region: Economic Development, Institutional Reform and Social Welfare in the Western Balkans – By W. Bartlett
Research Design in European Studies: The Case of Europeanization
In this article, we contribute to the debate on research design and causal analysis in European integration studies by considering the sub‐field of Europeanization. First, we examine the awareness of research design issues in the literature on Europeanization through a review of the debate on causality, concept formation and methods. Second, we analyse how much of the discussion of the trade‐offs in causal analysis in mainstream political science…
Quid pro Quo: Political Trust and Policy Implementation in G reece during the Age of Austerity
Why do national governments fail to implement deep reforms in light of strong international and E uropean pressures? Building on the top‐down implementation framework by M azmanian and S abatier, we argue that political trust underpins the government's implementation track record. We investigate this argument by looking at the failure of the G reek government to implement bailout reforms between 2010 and 2012 in two areas: tax and duty collection…
Greece in Crisis: Austerity, Populism and the Politics of Blame
Within the broader debate on the Greek crisis, the theory of ‘populist democracy’ postulates that populism is fundamental to the sustenance of the Greek political system and is at the heart of Greece's endemic domestic weaknesses. This article tests this assumption empirically through the use of a sophisticated framing analysis of speeches delivered by the leaders of the five parties in the Greek parliament in the period 2009–11. The findings con…
Feeling the pulse of the Greek debt crisis: Affect on the web of blame
This article examines the affective content of Greek media representations of the debt crisis, from 2009 to 2012. We analyze the content of opinion pieces from journalists, experts and public intellectuals published in Greek newspapers, and identify their affective tone towards political actors and institutions. We focus on anger, fear and hope, and identify blame attribution frames, which underpin the public's trust and confidence in domestic an…
Policies that Succeed and Programs that Fail: Ambiguity, Conflict, and Crisis in Greek Higher Education
Why do some policies adopted by a wide margin fail to be implemented? Highlighting the role of policy entrepreneurial strategies within the Multiple Streams Approach (MSA), we examine the implementation of Greek higher education reform in 2011 to argue that when policies adversely affect the status quo, successful entrepreneurial strategies of issue‐linkage and framing, side payments, and institutional rule manipulation are more likely to lead to…
Gender, ownership and engagement during the European Union referendum: Gendered frames and the reproduction of binaries
The European Union referendum was supposed to be a significant moment for political engagement and ownership in the UK. This article looks at how the two official European Union referendum campaigns (Vote Leave and Remain) framed discussions about the UK’s membership of the European Union, as well as the impact of the campaign on women’s political activation. Using data from a survey questionnaire conducted two weeks after the European Union refe…
A more capable EU? Assessing the role of the EU’s institutions in defence capability development
Are EU institutions able to perform their preferred role within defence capability development? Highlighting increased demands for a stronger EU role in security, we explore how EU institutions have promoted their role within CSDP. Using role theory, we investigate the European Commission, the EDA, the EEAS and the European Parliament’s ability to promote pooled and shared defence resources in European capability development. We argue that this d…
Sailing through Troubled Waters and towards ‘Someplace
Calm before the Storm? 2019 in Perspective
At the end of our 2018 Annual Review editorial we reflected on a tough year for the EU, arguing that it was sailing through troubled waters into an unknown direction (Exadaktylos et al., 2019). The waves of populism and right-wing extremism were sweeping across Europe, the negotiations around Brexit were a political drama not only at the European but also at the British level, and EU leaders were looking to re-infuse trust in the euro, EU institu…
Whose Opinion Is It? Public Debates and Repertoires of Action in Greece During the First Covid-19 Lockdown Period
To what extent do public health crises create unity or polarise the public sphere? We investigate the development and dynamics of the public debate in Greece in light of Covid-19 to detect polarisation within the public sphere. We cover the first wave of the pandemic (March-May 2020), assessing reactions to government measures. In times of crises, the public looks for shortcuts in the media to assess the overabundance of information and digest th…
Anna DurnovÁ, Understanding Emotions in Post-Factual Politics: Negotiating Truth
For many years, the validity of facts and the role of science have been brought into doubt. Every time there is a new discovery, established knowledge and established interests are being challenged. In fact, in the course of history, the disregard for expert opinion and knowledge has led to the establishment of alternative facts that lead to fallacious inferences. This disregard is not a grassroots tendency, but often a top-down strategy by polit…
A Year like no Other: Hope out of Despair
Policy Styles and Trust in the Age of Pandemics: Global Threat, National Responses
This chapter examines the Brazilian government responses to the health crisis, covering the first year of the pandemic. In the re-democratization process, intergovernmental relations changed, starting from the decline of authoritarian rule and culminating in the new 1988 Constitution, when Brazil returned to a cooperative federalism after years of institutional darkness under the military dictatorship. Since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, c…
Assessing the effectiveness of public health interventions for Covid‐19 in Greece and Cyprus
In this article, we statistically examine the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) implemented by the national governments of Greece and Cyprus during 2020 to (a) limit the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and (b) mitigate the economic fallout brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic. Applying a modified health belief model, we hypothesize that behavioral outcomes at the policy level are a function of NPIs, perceived severity, an…
When emotions run high: Affective responses to crises in Europe
From Crisis to Crisis: The EU in between the Covid, Energy and Inflation Crises (and War)
Advancing the operationalization of national policy styles
While national policy styles have (re)gained academic attention in recent comparative public policy work, the concept still needs a widely accepted operationalization that can allow the collection and analysis of data across contexts while steering away from construct validity threats. We build on Tosun and Howlett's (2022) work and employ a mixed‐methods approach, which relies on exploratory factor analysis and hierarchical cluster analysis. We …
Policy styles and political trust in Europe’s national responses to the Covid-19 crisis
Why do countries respond differently when they face the same pandemic? In this article, we comparatively investigate the effects of policy styles in shaping responses to the COVID-19 crisis in two European countries: Greece and Sweden. Extending the concept of policy styles to extraordinary policymaking, we argue that political trust and policy styles result in national responses that range from centralization to decentralization. The combination…
Hacking Directional Dependency in Research Design for EU Studies
EU studies extend into political science, political theory, public and foreign policy analysis, and international relations. The field's diversity speaks to different ontological, epistemological and methodological traditions and research practices. How the EU is conceived as a political reality and entity (ontology) tends to shape how researchers substantiate knowledge production about EU affairs (epistemology) and the way they uncover this know…
The EU at Crossroads: 2022 As a Turning Point Year
Mapping the changing role of expertise in Covid-19 politics in Europe
During major national crises countries experience a ‘rally round the flag’ effect, where citizens, societal groups and politicians put aside mundane conflicts to stand united against a common threat. This shift to depoliticised policymaking was indeed observed in many European countries during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic from 2020 onwards. Subsequently it noted how politics involving COVID-19 were then (re)politicised, typically when lo…
Political science (18 works) · Law (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Populism, Right-Wing Movements (6 works)