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Kevin Featherstone

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Kevin Featherstone

Director, Hellenic Observatory, European Institute, London School of Economics

Professor Kevin Featherstone is Director of the London School of Economics (LSE) European Institute’s Hellenic Observatory.

He was previously Eleftherios Venizelos Professor in Contemporary Greek Studies at the LSE and Professor in European Politics at the LSE’s European Institute. He was also previously Head of the LSE European Institute.

Professor Featherstone was a member of the Greek National Council for Research and Technology, which reports to the minister of education, from 2010-2013. He was the first foreigner to be appointed to the Council.

He has written about the governance of the Eurozone and the political economy of Greece. You can find his 2020 book, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Greek Politics, here (https://www.amazon.com/Oxford-Handbook-Modern-Politics-Handbooks-ebook/dp/B08KWGW4GD/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=The%20Oxford%20Handbook%20of%20Modern%20Greek%20Politics&qid=1638756800&sr=8-1).

Kevin Featherstone On The State Of The West & The Upcoming Greek Election: May 16, 2023.

Education
PhD Government, University of Manchester · MA Western European Politics, University of Essex · BA Government, University of Essex
Topics
Comparative Politics · Political Economy · Public Policy · European Union · Eurozone Governance · Greece

In the Encyclopedia1

Talks & video2

Selected publications29

  1. 2020The Oxford Handbook on Greek Politics; co-editor (with D. A. Sotiropoulos) contributing three full chapters and supervising some 40 others (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020).
  2. 2020‘Conditionality, democracy and institutional weakness: the Euro-crisis trilemma’, Journal of Common Market Studies: Annual Review, 54, 2016. (S1). 48-64. ISSN 0021-9886. (with Abels, Christoph, Anheier, Helmut. K, Begg, Iain) (2020)
  3. 2015Prime Ministers in Greece: the paradox of power. (Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2015). (with D. Papadimitriou).
  4. 2015‘External Conditionality and the debt crisis: the ‘Troika’ and public administration reform in Greece’, Journal of European Public Policy, 22, 3, 2015.
  5. 2014Politics and Policy in Greece: The Challenge of Modernisation; London, Routledge, 2005. Europe in Modern Greek History, London: C. Hurst & Co. 2014
  6. 2013“The Emperor has no Clothes! Power and Resources within the Greek Core Executive”, Governance, 26, 3, 2013, pp 523-545. (with D. Papadimitriou)
  7. 2011The Last Ottomans: The Muslim Minority of Greece, 1940-1949. (London, Palgrave, 2011). (with D. Papadimitriou, A. Mamarelis and G. Niarchos)
  8. 2011“The Greek Sovereign Debt Crisis and EMU: a failing state in a skewed regime”, Journal of Common Market Studies, March 2011. pp 193-217
  9. 2008The Limits of Europeanization: Reform Capacity and Policy Conflict in Greece (London, Palgrave, 2008). (with D. Papadimitriou)
  10. 2007“Manipulating Rules, Contesting Solutions: Europeanisation and the Politics of Restructuring Olympic Airways”, Government and Opposition, 42, 1, Winter 2007, pp. 46-72. (with D. Papadimitriou)
  11. 2005“‘Soft” Coordination Meets “Hard” Politics: The European Union and Pension Reform in Greece”, Journal of European Public Policy, 12, 4, 2005, pp. 733-750.
  12. 2005Introduction: ‘Modernisation’ and the structural constraints of Greek politics. West European Politics, 28(2), 2005, pp 223-241.
  13. 2003The Politics of Europeanisation, (New York, Oxford University Press,2003). (with C. Radaelli)
  14. 2003“Greece and EMU: Between External Empowerment Band Domestic Vulnerability”, Journal of Common Market Studies, 41, 5, December 2003; pp.923-40.
  15. 2001“The Limits of External Empowerment: EMU, Technocracy and Pension Reform in Greece”, Political Studies, 49, 3, 2001, pp. 462-480. (with G. Kazamias, D. Papadimitriou)
  16. 2000Greek Studies, 18, 2, 2000, 393-414. (with G. Kazamias, D. Papadimitriou).
  17. 1999The Road to Maastricht: Negotiating Economic and Monetary Union, (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999). (with K. Dyson)
  18. 1996The United States and the European Community in the 1990s, (London, Macmillan / St. Martin’s, 1993; second edition 1996). (with R. Ginsberg)
  19. 1996Greece in a Changing Europe: Between European Integration and Balkan Disintegration (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1996). (with K. Ifantis)
  20. 1996“Italy and EMU as a ‘Vincolo Esterno’: Empowering the Technocrats, Transforming the State”, South European Society and Politics, 1,2, Autumn 1996, pp. 272-299. (with K Dyson)
  21. 1994“Jean Monnet and the `democratic deficit’ in the European Union”, Journal of Common Market Studies, 32, 2, June 1994, pp. 149-170.
  22. 1988Socialist Parties and European Integration: A Comparative History (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1988).
  23. 1987Political Change in Greece: Before and After the Colonels; London: Croom Helm, 1987) (with D. Katsoudas)
  24. Books: [single or co-authored]
  25. Edited books:
  26. Europeanization and the Southern Periphery. (with G. Kazamias) Frank Cass, London.
  27. Articles in international, peer-reviewed journals:
  28. “Greece and the Negotiation of EMU: Preferences, Strategies, and Institutions”, Journal of Modern
  29. Enhancing Europe’s global power: a scenario exercise with eight proposals. Global Policy. ISSN 1758-5880 (In Press)

Positions & affiliations18

  • London School of Economics (2002 - present)
  • Member, Greek National Council for Research and Technology (2010-2013)
  • Member, ad hoc advisory committee to Greek Prime Minister, Georgios Papandreou: Advisory Committee for the Modernisation of the Operation of the Government (2009-2010)
  • Eleftherios Venizelos Professor of Contemporary Greek Studies & Professor of European Politics, London School of Economics and Political Science (2002 - present)
  • Director of the Hellenic Observatory, LSE. (2002-2015, 2018-present)
  • Head of the European Institute, LSE (2004-7; 2011-12; 2015-18)
  • Professor of European Politics, Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration Studies, University of Bradford (1995-2002)
  • Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer, then Reader in Politics, University of Bradford (1987-1995)
  • Lecturer in Political Studies, University of Stirling (1979-1987).
  • European University Institute (2020)
  • Harvard University Center for European Studies (2012)
  • New York University (1990-91)
  • University of Minnesota (1983)
  • Appointed to the REF2021 Area Studies Panel (2018)
  • Member, ‘Challenge’ panel for HM Government’s ‘Balance of EU Competences’ review (2013)
  • Member, National Council for Research and Technology [To Ethniko Symboulio Ereunas kai Texnologias, ESET], Greece. First foreign member. (2010-14)
  • Vice-Chair, Advisory Board, Atomium Culture, Brussels: a philanthropic NGO dedicated to promoting closer interaction between academia, business, and government within the European Research Area. (2010-2018)
  • Member, Prime Minister’s 'Advisory Committee for the Modernisation of the Operation of the Government', Athens, and rapporteur of its final report (submitted to the Greek Parliament, February 2011) (2009-2010)

Credentials & fellowships4

  • Member, Editorial Advisory Board, West European Politics
  • Member, Editorial Advisory Board, South European Society and Politics
  • Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Modern Greek Studies
  • Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of European Integration

Honours & awards8

  • Grand Commander, Order of the Phoenix of the Hellenic Republic (2021)
  • Awarded Honorary Doctorate, University of Athens (2020)
  • European Parliament selected The Road To Maastricht: Negotiating Economic and Monetary Union (co-authored with Kenneth Dyson) one of its ‘100 Books on Europe to Remember’ across all subjects since 1945 (2014)
  • Impact Case Study received the highest grade (4*) in the UK’s ‘Research Evaluation Framework’ (REF) audit (2014)
  • Made ‘Commander, Order of the Phoenix’ by the President of the Hellenic Republic (2013)
  • Elected to the Academy of the Social Sciences, UK (2012)
  • Appointed to ad hoc advisory committee to the Greek Prime Minister, Georgios Papandreou: 'Advisory Committee for the Modernisation of the Operation of the Government' (2009-2010)
  • ESRC, AHRC, SSRC, Nuffield, Leverhulme, British Academy