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George Th. Mavrogordatos

Constantine Karamanlis Professor of Hellenic and Southeastern European Studies

Education

B.A. in Politics and Economics, University of Athens Degree in Law, University of Athens
Μ.Α. in Political Science, Purdue University
Ph.D. in Political Science, University of California, Berkeley

Professional Activities

Adviser to the Opposition during the debate on the new Greek Constitution, 1975; Founder and Editor (with N. P. Diamandouros) of Modern Greek Society: A Social Science Newsletter, 1973-1980; Member of the National Council for Research and Technology, 2005-2008.

Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award of the American Political Science Association (“for the best book published in the United States on government, politics or international affairs”) for Stillborn Republic, 1984.

Courses

Fall 2009

• DHP P213 - Charismatic Leadership and International Relations

Research Interests

Interest groups; American political institutions; Athenian democracy; World War II.

Selected Publications

Books

• Pressure Groups and Democracy (Athens: Patakis 2001, in Greek).
• National Schism and Mass Organization: The Reservists of 1916 (Athens: Alexandria Publishers 1996, in Greek).
• With the Broken Hand of Koraes (Athens: Odysseas 1991, in Greek).
• Between Pityocamptes and Procrustes: Occupational Interest Groups in Contemporary Greece (Athens: Odysseas 1988, in Greek).
• Rise of the Green Sun: The Greek Election of 1981 (London: King’s College, 1983).
• Stillborn Republic: Social Coalitions and Party Strategies in Greece, 1922-1936 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983). Received the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award of the American Political Science Association in 1984.
• Studies and Documents on the Period 1909-1940 (Athens: A.Sakkoulas 1982, in Greek).

Principal Articles and Book Chapters in English

• “Orthodoxy and Nationalism in the Greek Case.” West European Politics, Vol.26, No.1 (January 2003), pp. 117-136. Reprinted in: John T. S. Madeley and Zsolt Enyedi, eds., Church and State in Contemporary Europe: The Chimera of Neutrality (London: Frank Cass, 2003).
• “From Traditional Clientelism to Machine Politics: The Impact of PASOK Populism in Greece.” South European Society & Politics, Vol.2, No.3 (Winter 1997), pp.1-26.
• “Duverger and the Jacobins.” European Journal of Political Research, Vol.30, No.1 (July 1996), pp.1-17.
• “The 1940s between Past and Future.” In: John O. Iatrides and Linda Wrigley, eds., Greece at the Crossroads: The Civil War and Its Legacy (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995), pp.31-47.
• “Civil Society under Populism.” In: Richard Clogg, ed., Greece, 1981-89: The Populist Decade (New York: St.Martin's Press, 1993), pp.47-64.
• “Downs Revisited: Spatial Models of Party Competition and Left-Right Measurements.” International Political Science Review, Vol.8, No.4 (October 1987), pp.333-342.
• “The Greek Party System: A Case of 'Limited but Polarized Pluralism'?” West European Politics, Vol.7, No.4 (October 1984), pp.156-169. Reprinted in: Stefano Bartolini and Peter Mair, eds., Party Politics in Contemporary Western Europe (London: Frank Cass, 1984).
• “The Emerging Party System.” In: Richard Clogg, ed., Greece in the 1980s (London: Macmillan, 1983), pp. 70-94.
• “The 1946 Election and Plebiscite: Prelude to Civil War.” In: John O.Iatrides, ed., Greece in the 1940s: A Nation in Crisis (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1981), pp. 181-194.