Professor Myrto Tsakatika

  • Professor (Political & International Studies)

telephone: (0)1413303391
email: Myrto.Tsakatika@glasgow.ac.uk

R1311 Level 13, Politics, Adam Smith Building, Glasgow G12 8RT

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808

Biography

Myrto Tsakatika (PhD Essex) joined the University of Glasgow in 2007. Previously she taught at the Athens University of Economics. She has held visiting positions at the University of Trieste, the Juan March Foundation in Madrid and the Centre Emile Durkheim at SciencesPo Bordeaux. Myrto’s research has focused on European Union politics and public policy, namely on the question of the ‘democratic ‘deficit’, trends in public Euroscepticism and new governance modes. More recently she has worked on radical left parties in comparative perspective and populism, particularly in Southern Europe (Greece, Portugal, Italy and Spain).

Research interests

  • European Union institutions and governance
  • Politics of economic and social policy
  • Southern European politics
  • Radical left parties
  • Populism

Research groups

Publications

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2024

Tsakatika, Myrto ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 (2024) Regional and local elections in Greece, 8 October 2023. BLUE: Electoral Bulletins of the European Union, 4,

2023

Tsakatika, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 and Keith, D. (2023) Radical left party linkages. In: March, L., Escalona, F. and Keith, D. (eds.) Palgrave Handbook of the Radical Left. Palgrave Macmillan. (In Press)

Tsakatika, Myrto ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 and Bankov, Petar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0609-4947 (2023) Europe: North and South. In: Stavrakakis, Y. and Katsambekis, G. (eds.) Elgar Research Handbook on Populism. Edward Elgar. (Accepted for Publication)

2022

Tsakatika, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 (2022) Political parties and social movements. In: Carter, N., Keith, D., Sindre, G. and Vasilopoulou, S. (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Political Parties. Series: Routledge international handbooks. Routledge. ISBN 9780429263859

2021

Tsakatika, Myrto ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 (2021) Greece: from coalitions as a ‘state of exception’ to the new normal?'. In: Bergman, Torbjörn, Bäck, Hanna and Hellström, Johan (eds.) Coalition Governance in Western Europe. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 284-323. ISBN 9780198868484 (doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198868484.003.0009)

Font, Nuria, Graziano, Paolo and Tsakatika, Myrto ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 (2021) Varieties of inclusionary populism? SYRIZA, Podemos and the Five Star Movement. Government and Opposition, 56(1), pp. 163-183. (doi: 10.1017/gov.2019.17)

2020

Tsakatika, Myrto ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 (2020) Alexis Tsipras. In: Featherstone, Kevin and Sotiropoulos, Dimitri A. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Modern Greek Politics. Series: Oxford handbooks. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198825104

2019

Lisi, Marco, Llamazares, Ivan and Tsakatika, Myrto ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 (2019) Economic crisis and the variety of populist response: Evidence from Greece, Portugal, and Spain. West European Politics, 42(6), pp. 1284-1309. (doi: 10.1080/01402382.2019.1596695)

2017

Tsakatika, Myrto ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 (2017) Assessing Syriza’s two years in power: how successful has the party been in office? LSE EUROPP European Politics and Policy Blog, 26 Jan.

2016

Tsakatika, Myrto ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 (2016) SYRIZA’S electoral rise in Greece: protest, trust and the art of political manipulation. South European Society and Politics, 21(4), pp. 519-540. (doi: 10.1080/13608746.2016.1239671)

2015

Tsakatika, Myrto ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 (2015) One hundred days of SYRIZA. Scottish Left Review(87), p. 23.

Tsakatika, Myrto ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 (2015) Why are European leaders so afraid of Greece’s Syriza party? Conversation, 9 Jan.

2014

Tsakatika, Myrto ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 (2014) Enemy Brothers Socialists and Communists in France, Italy, and Spain. West European Politics, 37(1), pp. 233-234. (doi: 10.1080/01402382.2013.853523)[Book Review]

Tsakatika, Myrto ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 (2014) SYRIZA y la izquierda en la política griega. In: Martín, Irene and Tirado, Ignacio (eds.) Grecia: aspectos políticos y juridico-economicos de la crisis. CEPS: Madrid.

2013

Tsakatika, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 and Lisi, M. (Eds.) (2013) Transformations of the Radical Left in Southern Europe: Bringing Society Back In? Series: South European society and politics. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415869805

Serrichio, F., Tsakatika, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 and Quaglia, L. (2013) Euroscepticism and the global financial crisis. Journal of Common Market Studies, 51(1), pp. 51-64. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-5965.2012.02299.x)

Tsakatika, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 (2013) Syriza. In: Passas, A. (ed.) Greek Political Parties and European Integration: Thirty Years on (1981-2011) [In Greek]. Papazisis: Athens. (In Press)

Tsakatika, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 and Eleftheriou, C. (2013) The radical left's turn towards civil society in Greece: One strategy, two paths. South European Society and Politics, 18(1), pp. 81-99. (doi: 10.1080/13608746.2012.757455)

Tsakatika, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 and Lisi, M. (2013) Zippin’ up my boots, goin’ back to my roots: Radical left parties in Southern Europe. South European Society and Politics, 18(1), pp. 1-19. (doi: 10.1080/13608746.2012.758447)

2012

Tsakatika, Myrto ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 (2012) Book review: Left parties in national governments. Party Politics, 18(3), pp. 453-455. (doi: 10.1177/1354068812438604)[Book Review]

Tsakatika, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 (2012) Slovenian employment policy: 'soft' Europeanization by consensus. Europe-Asia Studies, 64(4), pp. 673-693. (doi: 10.1080/09668136.2012.660765)

2011

Kostantinidis, I. and Tsakatika, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 (2011) Anti-party sentiments in Greece: the comparative perspective [in Greek]. In: Vernardakis, C. (ed.) Public Opinion in Greece 2008-2010. Savalas: Athens. ISBN 9789604930050

2009

Tsakatika, Myrto ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 (2009) The Greek Coalition of the Left: turning Eurosceptic? International and European Politics [in Greek], 14, pp. 143-161.

Tsakatika, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 (2009) Slovenian employment policy from independence to EU membership: studying the impact of horizontal Europeanization. Working Paper. Scottish Jean Monnet Centre Working Paper Series.

Tsakatika, Myrto ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808, Xezonakis, George and Bistis, Alexander (2009) Renewal of political personnel and postmaterialist values in the Greek Coalition of the Left. In: Constantinidis, G, Marantzidis, N and Pappas, T (eds.) Parties and Politics in Greece. Kritiki: Athens, pp. 271-306. ISBN 9789602186350

2008

Tsakatika, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 (2008) Political Responsibility and the European Union. Manchester University Press: Manchester. ISBN 9780719075155

2007

Tsakatika, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 (2007) The European Union and the democratic limits of governance. In: Della Sala, V. and Ruzza, C. (eds.) Civil Society and Governance in the European Union: Normative Perspectives. Manchester University Press: Manchester. ISBN 9780719075063

Tsakatika, M (2007) Governance vs. politics: the European Union's constitutive 'democratic deficit'. Journal of European Public Policy, 14(6), pp. 867-885. (doi: 10.1080/13501760701497840)

Tsakatika, M (2007) A Parliamentary Dimension for EU Soft Governance. Journal of European Integration, 29(5), pp. 549-564. (doi: 10.1080/07036330701694873)

2005

Tsakatika, M (2005) Claims to Legitimacy: The European Commission between Continuity and Change. Journal of Common Market Studies, 43(1), pp. 193-220. (doi: 10.1111/j.0021-9886.2005.00552.x)

2004

Tsakatika, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 (2004) The open method of co-ordination in the European Convention: a lost opportunity? In: Dobson, L. and Follesdal, A. (eds.) Political Theory and the European Constitution. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415340670

Tsakatika, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 (2004) The weakness of the neo-institutionalist approaches: how political institutions change. Science and Society: Review of Political and Moral Theory, 13, pp. 135-166.

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Articles

Tsakatika, Myrto ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 (2024) Regional and local elections in Greece, 8 October 2023. BLUE: Electoral Bulletins of the European Union, 4,

Font, Nuria, Graziano, Paolo and Tsakatika, Myrto ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 (2021) Varieties of inclusionary populism? SYRIZA, Podemos and the Five Star Movement. Government and Opposition, 56(1), pp. 163-183. (doi: 10.1017/gov.2019.17)

Lisi, Marco, Llamazares, Ivan and Tsakatika, Myrto ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 (2019) Economic crisis and the variety of populist response: Evidence from Greece, Portugal, and Spain. West European Politics, 42(6), pp. 1284-1309. (doi: 10.1080/01402382.2019.1596695)

Tsakatika, Myrto ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 (2017) Assessing Syriza’s two years in power: how successful has the party been in office? LSE EUROPP European Politics and Policy Blog, 26 Jan.

Tsakatika, Myrto ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 (2016) SYRIZA’S electoral rise in Greece: protest, trust and the art of political manipulation. South European Society and Politics, 21(4), pp. 519-540. (doi: 10.1080/13608746.2016.1239671)

Tsakatika, Myrto ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 (2015) One hundred days of SYRIZA. Scottish Left Review(87), p. 23.

Tsakatika, Myrto ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 (2015) Why are European leaders so afraid of Greece’s Syriza party? Conversation, 9 Jan.

Serrichio, F., Tsakatika, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 and Quaglia, L. (2013) Euroscepticism and the global financial crisis. Journal of Common Market Studies, 51(1), pp. 51-64. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-5965.2012.02299.x)

Tsakatika, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 and Eleftheriou, C. (2013) The radical left's turn towards civil society in Greece: One strategy, two paths. South European Society and Politics, 18(1), pp. 81-99. (doi: 10.1080/13608746.2012.757455)

Tsakatika, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 and Lisi, M. (2013) Zippin’ up my boots, goin’ back to my roots: Radical left parties in Southern Europe. South European Society and Politics, 18(1), pp. 1-19. (doi: 10.1080/13608746.2012.758447)

Tsakatika, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 (2012) Slovenian employment policy: 'soft' Europeanization by consensus. Europe-Asia Studies, 64(4), pp. 673-693. (doi: 10.1080/09668136.2012.660765)

Tsakatika, Myrto ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 (2009) The Greek Coalition of the Left: turning Eurosceptic? International and European Politics [in Greek], 14, pp. 143-161.

Tsakatika, M (2007) Governance vs. politics: the European Union's constitutive 'democratic deficit'. Journal of European Public Policy, 14(6), pp. 867-885. (doi: 10.1080/13501760701497840)

Tsakatika, M (2007) A Parliamentary Dimension for EU Soft Governance. Journal of European Integration, 29(5), pp. 549-564. (doi: 10.1080/07036330701694873)

Tsakatika, M (2005) Claims to Legitimacy: The European Commission between Continuity and Change. Journal of Common Market Studies, 43(1), pp. 193-220. (doi: 10.1111/j.0021-9886.2005.00552.x)

Tsakatika, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 (2004) The weakness of the neo-institutionalist approaches: how political institutions change. Science and Society: Review of Political and Moral Theory, 13, pp. 135-166.

Books

Tsakatika, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 (2008) Political Responsibility and the European Union. Manchester University Press: Manchester. ISBN 9780719075155

Book Sections

Tsakatika, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 and Keith, D. (2023) Radical left party linkages. In: March, L., Escalona, F. and Keith, D. (eds.) Palgrave Handbook of the Radical Left. Palgrave Macmillan. (In Press)

Tsakatika, Myrto ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 and Bankov, Petar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0609-4947 (2023) Europe: North and South. In: Stavrakakis, Y. and Katsambekis, G. (eds.) Elgar Research Handbook on Populism. Edward Elgar. (Accepted for Publication)

Tsakatika, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 (2022) Political parties and social movements. In: Carter, N., Keith, D., Sindre, G. and Vasilopoulou, S. (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Political Parties. Series: Routledge international handbooks. Routledge. ISBN 9780429263859

Tsakatika, Myrto ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 (2021) Greece: from coalitions as a ‘state of exception’ to the new normal?'. In: Bergman, Torbjörn, Bäck, Hanna and Hellström, Johan (eds.) Coalition Governance in Western Europe. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 284-323. ISBN 9780198868484 (doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198868484.003.0009)

Tsakatika, Myrto ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 (2020) Alexis Tsipras. In: Featherstone, Kevin and Sotiropoulos, Dimitri A. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Modern Greek Politics. Series: Oxford handbooks. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198825104

Tsakatika, Myrto ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 (2014) SYRIZA y la izquierda en la política griega. In: Martín, Irene and Tirado, Ignacio (eds.) Grecia: aspectos políticos y juridico-economicos de la crisis. CEPS: Madrid.

Tsakatika, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 (2013) Syriza. In: Passas, A. (ed.) Greek Political Parties and European Integration: Thirty Years on (1981-2011) [In Greek]. Papazisis: Athens. (In Press)

Kostantinidis, I. and Tsakatika, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 (2011) Anti-party sentiments in Greece: the comparative perspective [in Greek]. In: Vernardakis, C. (ed.) Public Opinion in Greece 2008-2010. Savalas: Athens. ISBN 9789604930050

Tsakatika, Myrto ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808, Xezonakis, George and Bistis, Alexander (2009) Renewal of political personnel and postmaterialist values in the Greek Coalition of the Left. In: Constantinidis, G, Marantzidis, N and Pappas, T (eds.) Parties and Politics in Greece. Kritiki: Athens, pp. 271-306. ISBN 9789602186350

Tsakatika, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 (2007) The European Union and the democratic limits of governance. In: Della Sala, V. and Ruzza, C. (eds.) Civil Society and Governance in the European Union: Normative Perspectives. Manchester University Press: Manchester. ISBN 9780719075063

Tsakatika, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 (2004) The open method of co-ordination in the European Convention: a lost opportunity? In: Dobson, L. and Follesdal, A. (eds.) Political Theory and the European Constitution. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415340670

Book Reviews

Tsakatika, Myrto ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 (2014) Enemy Brothers Socialists and Communists in France, Italy, and Spain. West European Politics, 37(1), pp. 233-234. (doi: 10.1080/01402382.2013.853523)[Book Review]

Tsakatika, Myrto ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 (2012) Book review: Left parties in national governments. Party Politics, 18(3), pp. 453-455. (doi: 10.1177/1354068812438604)[Book Review]

Edited Books

Tsakatika, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 and Lisi, M. (Eds.) (2013) Transformations of the Radical Left in Southern Europe: Bringing Society Back In? Series: South European society and politics. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415869805

Research Reports or Papers

Tsakatika, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7839-6808 (2009) Slovenian employment policy from independence to EU membership: studying the impact of horizontal Europeanization. Working Paper. Scottish Jean Monnet Centre Working Paper Series.

This list was generated on Sun Jun 15 13:55:38 2025 BST.

Grants

  • Values and the European Union, UACES study group, 2008-2010
  • The Greek and Portuguese left on European Integration: organization, strategy, ideology, Carnegie Trust, April 2010
  • The weakest link: changing patterns of party competition and the politics of protest in Southern Europe, Caledonian Research Foundation/Royal Society of Edinburgh Visiting Research Fellowship, February 2012
  • Parliamentary Democracy in Europe (PADEMIA) Erasmus Network for Teaching and Research, EACEA, co-ordinator of the Glasgow team, 2013-2016
  • South European Studies (EUROSUD) Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree funding, EACEA, 2018-2024

 

 

Supervision

Current PhD students

 

  • Cook, Michelle
    ‘Are populists a menace for world peace? A comparative study of domestic populism and foreign policies in the United States and Greece'
  • Naeem, Nida
    Localisation of EU Peacebuilding: Rethinking Development for Sustainable Peace – A Comparative Analysis of Northern Ireland, Cyprus, and Kosovo.

Recent PhD students

Ekaterina Tolstukha, 'The democratic deficit of the European Union revisited. A dynamic network analysis of the Institutional Reform debate in the European Union'

Petar Bankov, 'The electoral performance of Radical Left Parties: the role of party organisation at sub-national level'

Wanpat Youngmavittaya, 'A critical Reflection on Michael J Sandel: Rethinking Communitarianism and the Politics of the Common Good'

Giannis Vassilopoulos, 'Organised Interests and European Integration: the course of Greek Business towards the EEC'

David A. Alexander, 'The Sources of Committee Influence in the European Parliament'

Michael Scanlan, 'Inclusionary Populism: Old Antagonisms, New Challenges'

Matthias Dapprich, 'The Historical Development of West Germany's New Left with particular emphasis on the Marxistische Gruppe and the K-Gruppen'

 

Teaching

Undergraduate Teaching

POLITIC4020 Politics of the European Union

 

Postgraduate Teaching

POLITIC 5111 Global Social Movements

Additional information

Other Roles

  • Associate Editor, South European Society and Politics
  • Editor, Politics
  • Politics and International Relations Honours Convenor (curriculum)
  • Programme Director, ERASMUS MUNDUS International Master in South European Studies (EUROSUD)

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