CURRICULUM VITAE Gerassimos MOSCHONAS Contact Details

CURRICULUM VITAE
Gerassimos MOSCHONAS
Contact Details
Citizenship: Greek
Address: 136, Syngrou Av.,
176 71, Athens, Greece
e-mail: [email protected]
Summary Profile
Gerassimos Moschonas, PhD (Doctorat d’Etat), University of Paris-II, is currently an associate
professor in comparative politics in the Department of Political Science and History, Panteion
University of Political and Social Sciences, Athens, Greece.
He was a visiting scholar at the University of Paris-II (April 1992–October 1993), Yale University
(February–May 2005), and Princeton University (December 2008–March 2009). He has taught as a
visiting professor at the Institute of European Studies of the Free University of Brussels (2014
and 2006–2010), at the Institute of European Studies of University Paris 8 (2013-14), and the
Political Science Department of Montpellier 1 University (2011 and 2006). He has taught as a
guest lecturer at the Marcel Liebman Chair 2013 (February) and 1999 (April), Faculty of Social
and Political Sciences, Free University of Brussels.
His PhD thesis, La gauche française (1972–1988) à la lumière du paradigme social-démocrate.
Partis de coalition et coalitions de partis dans la compétition électorale (with honors, June
1990), was short-listed for the French national Concours des prix de thèses (for the best
dissertation of the year) and received a second honorary distinction (Mention) from the
president of the University of Paris-II (31 May 1991).
He is the author of In the Name of Social Democracy, The Great Transformation: 1945 to the
Present (London: Verso, 2002) and La Social-démocratie de 1945 à nos jours (Paris:
Montchrestien, 1994). His current research is focused on the history of the Left, the European
Union and political parties, with particular emphasis on the parties of social democracy and the
radical left, the Europarties, the theory of the party phenomenon, and the Greek debt crisis.
EDUCATION
1990 June: PhD (Doctorat d’Etat) in Political Science, University of Paris-II. With honors.
Short- listed for the national prize for best PhD of the year (mention Très Honorable,
thèse retenue pour le Concours des prix de thèses ainsi que pour l’attribution d’une
subvention).
Title : La gauche française (1972–1988) à la lumière du paradigme social-démocrate.
Partis de coalition et coalitions de partis dans la compétition électorale (588 pages).
Supervisor: D. Levy. Committee members: P. Avril, J. Cadart, Y. Meny, J. Robert.
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1991 PhD Honorary distinction (Mention) by the President of the University of Paris-II (31 May
1991).
1982-1983 M.A. (DEA) in Philosophy (ethics and politics), University Paris IV.
1981-1982 M.A. (DEA) in Political Science, University Paris II.
1975-1980 Department of Public Law and Political Science, National and Kapodistrian
University
of Athens: B.A
CURRENT POSITION
2008–present
Associate Professor, Comparative Politics,
Department of Political Science and History
Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences –Athens
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
1996-2008 Assistant Professor, Comparative Politics
Department of Political Science and History, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences,
Athens, Greece (tenured in 1999).
1992-1996 Lecturer, Assistant Professor , Political Sociology (with ―law 407‖ adjunct
appointment), Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences, University of Crete, Greece.
VISITING PROFESSOR / RESEARCH IN FOREIGN UNIVERSITIES
 2014 (spring semester) Free University of Brussels (ULB), Belgium, Visiting Professor,
Institute of European Studies, level of teaching: master 1 and master 2.

2014 (fall semester) University of Paris 8, France, Visiting Professor, Institute of
European Studies, level of teaching: master 2

2013 (February) Free University of Brussels (ULB), Marcel Liebman Chair, Belgium
Guest lecturer at the Marcel Liebman Chair 2013, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences.
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2011 (spring semester) Montpellier 1 University, France
Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science, Seminar, level of teaching: master2.
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2010 (spring semester) Free University of Brussels (ULB), Belgium
Visiting Professor, Institute of European Studies, level of teaching: master 1 and master 2.
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2009 (spring semester) Free University of Brussels (ULB), Belgium
Visiting Professor, Institute of European Studies, level of teaching: master 1 and master 2.
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Dec. 2008 –March 2009 Princeton University, USA
Stanley J. Seeger Visiting Research Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies.
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2008 (spring semester) Free University of Brussels (ULB), Belgium
Visiting Professor, Institute of European Studies, level of teaching: master 1 and master 2.
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2007 (spring semester) Free University of Brussels (ULB), Belgium
Visiting Professor, Institute of European Studies, level of teaching: master 1 and master 2.
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2006 (spring semester) Montpellier 1 University, France
Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science, level: master2.
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2005 (February-June) Yale University, USA
Visiting Scholar, Yale Center of International and Area Studies and Political Science
Department.
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1999 (April) Free University of Brussels (ULB), Marcel Liebman Chair, Belgium
Guest lecturer at the Marcel Liebman Chair 1999, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences.
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April 1992 - October 1993 University of Paris-II, France
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow.
TEACHING
Undergraduate Level (selection)
 Comparative Politics I
 Comparative Politics II
 Parties, Europarties and European Integration
 Theory of Political Parties
 Party Families in Western Europe
 The European Left in the Twentieth Century
M.A. Level (selection)
 Center-Left and Radical Left parties in the European Union (Panteion University, Athens).
 Political Parties and European Union (Institute of European Studies, Free University of
Brussels: 2006 - 2010)
 Institutions of Social Responsibility and Social Solidarity I and II (since the academic year
2012 - 13). Collective Inter-University course—University of Athens, Panteion University,
University of Peloponnese (with the financial support of Niarchos Foundation).
Co-directors: Gerassimos Kouzelis (University of Athens, Department of Political Science
and Public Administration, coordinator of the fall semester) and Gerassimos Moschonas
(coordinator of the spring semester).
RESEARCH ACTIVITY
 2015- 2016 (February) Dianeosis Foundation of Research and Analysis. Scientific
coordinator of the research group that designed, analyzed, and publicly presented the
results of "What Greeks believe, A snapshot of Greek society" (a Research Project - two
quantitative surveys and four focus groups - on the Greek political culture, see
publications 2016). Funding: Dianeosis Foundation of Research and Analysis

2012 - present Member of the International Research Group "FEPS Next Left Working
Group". Coordinator and funding: Foundation for European Progressive Studies (with the
support of Renner Institute, Austria).
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2012 - 2013 Member of the Research Group on Greek Radicalism. Research Programme:
‗Designing & Operating an Infrastructure for the Empirical Inquiry of Political & Social
Radicalism in Greece'. Coordinator: Associate Professor Ioannis Konstantinidis, University
of Macedonia, Greece (co-financed by the European Union [European Social Fund] and
Greek national funds [Thalis Programme]).
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2011 Istituto di Studi Politici ‗S. Pio V‘, Rome, Italy. Coordinator: Francesco Anghelone.
Research contribution: The Shipwreck of the Greek Economy and PASOK. The Political
Sources and Prospects of the Greek Debt Crisis (see unpublished Research Paper, 2011).
Funding: Istituto di Studi Politici ‗S. Pio V‘.

December 2008–March 2009 Princeton University, Stanley J. Seeger Visiting Research
fellowship, Program in Hellenic Studies. Topic: Policies, Ideas and Cycles of Domination:
The Electoral Success Stories of PASOK (1981–2004) and PSOE (1982–2008) (funding:
Princeton University).
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2004 – 2006
Member of International Research Group on ‗The Europeanisation of
National Political Parties, A 15 Nation Study‘. Economic and Social Research Council
(ESRC), Coordinator: Keele University, UK. Funding: ESRC.

2005 (February - June) Visiting Scholar, Yale Center of International and Area Studies
and Political Science Department, Yale University. Topic: Campaigning for Victory:
Leadership, Issues and Electoral Strategies in Europe and the USA (2000-2004) (funding:
Fulbright Foundation).

2004 Institute of Strategic Studies, Greece (ISTAME). Topic: Programmatic Discourse and
Electoral Strategies of European Socialists: The Cases of Denmark, Portugal and Greece
(funding: ISTAME).

1994-1995 Research Group on Left Political Parties, University of Paris-I, Sorbonne
(G.R.E.G.E.- C.R.P.S./CNRS-PARIS I). Coordinator: Professor Marc Lazar (funding:
G.R.E.G.E.- C.R.P.S./CNRS-PARIS-I).
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April 1992-October 1993 Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Paris-II.
Topic: Transnational European Parties: The Party of European Socialists (PES). Director:
Professor Pierre Avril (funding: French government).
Private sector
2000 –2006 Scientific advisor on electoral research issues for the Greek Institute of Public
Opinion Polls Kapa-Research.
LANGUAGES
French (fluent), English (very good), Greek (native)
PUBLICATIONS
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Books
1. In the Name of Social Democracy, The Great Transformation: 1945 to the Present.
London: Verso, 2002 (370 pages and Ι-ΧI).
Reviews
1. Perspectives on Politics, 2003, vol. 1, no. 1, p. 216; 2. Party Politics, 2003, vol. 9, no. 4, pp.
531-532; 3. Political Studies, 2003 (Sept.) vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 93; 4. Political Quarterly, 2002, vol.
73, no. 4, pp. 504-505; 5. International Labor and Working Class History, 2003, no 64, pp.169173; 6. Labour History Review, vol. 69, no 1, April 2004, pp. 393-401; 7. Journal of Southern
Europe and the Balkans, 2003, vol. 5, no 1, pp.112-113; 8. Millennium, Journal of International
Studies, 2003, vol. 32, no 1, pp. 147-149; 9. Revue Internationale de Politique Comparée, 2004,
vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 643-648 ; 10. Greek Journal of Political Science, 2002 (Dec.), no 20, pp. 170175 (in Greek); 11. Australian Journal of Political Science, vol. 38, no 3, p. 577, 2003; 12.
Canadian Journal of Political Science, 2003, vol. 36, no 4, pp. 935-937; 13. Canadian Dimension,
2005 (January); 14. Briarpatch Magazine, 2005 (Aug), vol. 34, no. 5; 15. Liberator, no 283, Sept.
2002.
2. La Social-démocratie, de 1945 à nos jours. Coll. «Clefs-Politique». Paris: Montchrestien,
1994 (157 pages).
Small Monograph
1. Programmatic Discourse and Electoral Strategies of European Socialists: the cases of
Denmark, Portugal and Greece. Athens: Istame, 2005 (in Greek, pages 68).
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals / Chapters in Edited Books
a) Articles and chapters

2017 "Socialism, Social Democracy and Communism" in William Outhwaite and Stephen
Turner (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Political Sociology, London, SAGE Publications, 2017
(work in progress).

2016 'Dilemmas of Radicalism in the European Union: Metamorphoses of the European
Radical Left', in Yannis Metaxas (ed.), Political Science: A Critical and Interdisciplinary
Approach to Political Action. 7003 words. Athens: Sakoulas, 2013 (forthcoming, in Greek).

2016 "What Greeks believe A snapshot of Greek society. Key findings, conclusions and
summary"
http://www.dianeosis.org/wpcontent/uploads/2016/02/ekthesi_moschona_single_Pages.pdf,
Athens,
Dianeosis
Foundation of Research and Analysis, February 2016, 37 pages (in Greek).
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2015 "The Greek Debt Crisis and PASOK: Lessons for European Social Democracy" in Ernst
Stetter, Karl Duffek and Ania Skrzypek, For A Connecting Progressive Agenda, Poland,
FEPS [Foundation for European Progressive Studies] and Renner Institute, "Next Left" book
series, 2015, pp. 410-430.
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2014 "Reforming Europe, Renewing Social Democracy? The Party of European Socialists,
the Debt Crisis, and the Europarties" in David Bailey Jean-Michel De Waele, Fabien
Escalona and Mathieu Vieira (eds), European Social Democracy During the Global Economic
Crisis: Renovation or Resignation?", Manchester, Manchester Univ. Press, 2014, pp. 252270.
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2013 'One Step Forward, One Step Back: Debt Crisis, the PES, and the Limits of Social
Democracy', in Ernst Stetter, Karl Duffek and Ania Skrzypek, In the Name of Political
Union - Europarties on the Rise, Poland, FEPS and Renner Institut, "Next Left" book series,
2013, pp. 126-139 [This piece constitutes a first version of the chapter "Reforming
Europe, Renewing Social Democracy? The Party of European Socialists, the Debt Crisis, and
the Europarties", see above].

2012 'La panne des voies réformistes en Europe. La social-démocratie à l‘épreuve de la
gouvernance européenne' in Daniel Cohen and Alain Bergounioux (eds), Le socialisme à
l’épreuve du capitalisme. Paris: Fayard, 2012, pp. 233-54.

2011 'Historical Decline or Change of Scale? The Electoral Dynamics of European Social
Democratic Parties, 1950-2009' in Cronin J, Ross G. and Shoch J. (eds.), What’s Left of the
Left, Democrats and Social Democrats in Challenging Times. Durham, N. C: Duke
University Press, 2011, pp. 50-85.
 2009 'When institutions matter: the EU and the identity of social democracy', Renewal,
vol. 17, no 2 (Summer 2009): 11-20 [This piece is a much shorter (and updated) version of
the chapter 'Reformism in a ―Conservative‖ System: the European Union and social
democratic identity, see below].

2009 'Reformism in a ―Conservative‖ System: the European Union and social democratic
identity' in J. Callaghan, N. Fishman, B. Jackson and M. Mcivor (eds), In Search of Social
democracy, Responses to Crisis and Modernisation. Manchester, UK: Manchester University
Press, 2009, pp. 168-193.
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2007 G. Moschonas and George Papanagnou, 'Posséder une longueur d‘avance sur la
droite: Expliquer la durée gouvernementale du PSOE (1982-96) et du PASOK (1981-2004) '.
Pôle Sud, no 27 (2007): 43-104.
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2005 Gérard Grunberg and G. Moschonas, 'Le vote socialiste: les bénéfices du votesanction dans une élection de "second‘ ordre''', in P. Perrineau (ed.), Le Vote européen
2004-2005, De l’élargissement au référendum français. Paris: Sciences Po, Les Presses,
2005: 173-205
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2004 'Le grand changement idéologique et programmatique de la social-démocratie
contemporaine' in Pascal Delwit (ed.), Où va la social-démocratie européenne ? Débats,
enjeux, perspectives. Brussels: Editions de L‘Université Libre des Bruxelles, 2004, pp. 3953.
(English translation: 'On the Verge of a Fresh Start: The Great Ideological and
Programmatic Change in Contemporary Social Democracy" in P. Delwit (ed.) ), Social
Democracy in Europe. Brussels: Editions de l' Université Libre des Bruxelles, 2005: 35-47.
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2003 'Greek Local Elections of 2002: Political Parties and the Two Logics of Elections',
Greek Journal of Political Science, no 21 (2003):106-135 (in Greek).
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2001 'The Path of Modernization: PASOK and European Integration', Journal of Southern
Europe and the Balkans, Vol 3, Νο 1 (2001):11-24.
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2001 'Le Parti des Socialistes Européens, Une génèse difficile', in Delwit P., Kulahci E.,
Van de Waelle C. (ed.), Les fédérations européennes de partis, Organisation et influence.
Βrussels: Editions de l‘Université Libre de Bruxelles, 2001: 91-106.
(English translation: 'The Party of European Socialists: The Difficult ―Construction‖ of a
European Player', in Delwit P., Kulahci E., Van de Waelle C. (ed.), The Europarties,
Organisation and Influence. Electronic version, Brussels: Editions de l‘Université de
Bruxelles, 2004: 113-134).
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2001 'L‘idée socialiste hier et aujourd‘hui: une approche historique', in Fondation Jean
Jaurés, L' idée socialiste aujourd’hui. Paris: Plon-Jean Jaurés, 2001: 31-39.

2000 G. Grunberg and G. Moschonas, 'Socialistes, Les illusions perdues' in Perrineau P.,
Grunberg G., Ysmal C. (eds), Le Vote des Quinze, Les élections européennes du 13 juin
1999. Paris: Presses de Sciences Po., 2000: 135-162
(English translation: 'The Disillusionment of European Socialists', in P. Perrineau (ed.),
Europe at the Polls: The European Elections of 1999. New York: Palgrave, 2002: 93-115).
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1999 'The Panhellenic Socialist Movement' in Ladrech R., Marlière P. (eds), Social
Democratic Parties in the European Union. London: Macmillan, 1999: 110-123.
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1998 'Social-démocratie et électorat ouvrier, le relâchement du lien', Actuel Marx , No
23, (1998): 93-117.
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1997 'Quo Vadis Social-démocratie?', in Vakaloulis M., Vincent J.M. (eds), Marx après les
Marxismes, 2: Marx au futur. Paris: L' Harmattan, 1997: 285-319.
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1996 'L'éclat d'un pouvoir fragilisé. Force et faiblesses du leadership socialiste', in Lazar
M. (ed), La gauche en Europe depuis 1945. Paris: PUF, 1996: 579-62l.
b) Articles and chapters in Greek (before 2000)

1996 'Perceptions of the Right and the Anti-Right syndrome in the Greek political and
electoral space', Kinovoulephtiki Epitheorissi (Parliamentary Review), No. 23-24 (1996):
79-101.
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1996 'The Logic of Comparative Political Inquiry, An Introductive Essay', in Yves Meny,
Government and Politics in Western Europe: Britain, France, Italy, Germany. Athens:
Papazissis, 1996: 25-71.
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1994 'The Right/Anti-Right Cleavage in the Greek Political System' in Nikos Demertzis
(ed.), The Greek Political Culture. Athens: Odisseas, 1994:159-216.
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1990 'Social Democracy: The Logic of a Political Force", Kinovoulephtiki Epitheorissi
(Parliamentary Review), No 5-6, (December 1990):111-131
c) Dictionaries, Encyclopedias

2005 'Le Parti Socialiste Européen' in Deloye, Yves (ed.), Dictionnaire des Elections
Européennes. Paris: Economica, 2005: 530-535.
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(English translation: 'The Party of European Socialists' in Deloye, Yves and Bruter Michael
(eds), Encyclopedia of European Elections. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
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1992 "Le parti social-démocrate" in Duhamel Ο., Meny Y., Dictionnaire Constitutionnel,
Paris, PUF, 1992, pp. 723-727
Unpublished Research Paper (2011)
The Shipwreck of the Greek Economy and PASOK. The Political Sources and Prospects of the
Greek Debt Crisis (23.855 words). Istituto di Studi Politici ‗S. Pio V‘, Rome, Italy, December
2011.
Nonacademic Publications (selections from 2009–15)

2015 "Critical Elections" and the Interpretation of the September 2015 Greek legislative
election", Sigxrona Themata, no 130-131, July-December 2015, pp. 26-28 (in Greek)

2015 "Syriza and the EU after the first long battle—the balance sheet of the
negotiations", 23 June 2015. http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/2055-gerassimosmoschonas-syriza-and-the-eu-after-the-first-long-battle-the-balance-sheet-of-thenegotiations. Originally published in Telos : http://www.telos-eu.com/fr/syriza-et-lueapres-la-premiere-longue-bataille-bi.html, 22 May 2015. Republished in Dominique
Crozat, Elisabeth Gauthier (eds), Écrits sur la Grèce, Points de vue européens, Vulainessur-Seine, Editions du Croquant, 2015 (September), pp. 151-160.
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2015
"Syriza's
tremendous
path
to
power",
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February
2015,
http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/1834-gerassimos-moschonas-syriza-s-tremendous-pathto-power, (originally published in Le Monde, the present version is slightly modified).
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2014 "The "metapolitefsi" of political parties: The deficit of coherent ideologies",
Chronos, No 16, August 2014: http://www.chronosmag.eu/index.php/s-1121.html (in
Greek)
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2014 "La social-démocratie et l'UE. La logique des occasions perdues", in POLITIQUE,
Revue des débats – n°85 – mai-juin 2014 (4.146 words).
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2013 'A New Left in Greece, PASOK‘s Fall and SYRIZA‘s Rise', Dissent, Fall 2013, pp. 3337.
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2013 'Grèce: le moment Syriza', Politique, Revue de débats, September 2013.
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2013
"The "broken equilibrium" in European politics: the Europe factor and the
weakening of mainstream parties (with an emphasis on centre-left and radical left
parties)" in The Rise of Populism and Extremist Parties in Europe, The Spinelli Group,
2013: 20-27.
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2012 'Shooting horses in cold blood: the Greek Left and the elections of June 2012',
State of the Left Bulletin, Policy Network, July 2012
http://www.policynetwork.net/pno_detail.aspx?ID=4217&title=Shooting-horses-in-coldblood
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2012 'Trapped in Europe? "Problematic" Reformism, the PES and the Future', Queries,,
No 2 (8) (2012): 80-88.
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2011 'The European Union and the dilemmas of the radical Left: Some preliminary
thoughts', Transform! (09/2011): 8-23. (French translation: 'L‘Union européenne et les
dilemmes de la gauche radicale, Réflexions préliminaires', Transform! (09/2011).
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2010 'Let's Re-read the Erfurt Programme: The Left, the State and the Greek bankruptcy'
Sigxrona Themata, no 110, (September 2010):15-18 (in Greek).
 2010 'Le PASOK et le rêve brisé de la Grèce' (in collaboration with Andreas
Pantazopoulos). Revue Socialiste, no 39 (third trimester of 2010): 37-45.
 2010 'The Electoral Crisis of Social Democracy: The Great Retreat of the European Social
- Democratic Parties (1950-2009)", Transform!, 06/2010. (French translation: 'La crise
électorale de la social-démocratie: le grand recul des partis sociaux-démocrates
européens (1950-2009)'. ( 06/2010): 151-169.
 2009 'La Grèce dans le chaos: un malaise complexe, une révolte attrape-tout', Revue
Socialiste. No 34 (Second trimester, 2009): 131-139
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2009
'La crise électorale de la social-démocratie européenne',
débats, No 62. (December 2009).
Politique, Revue de
CONFERENCES, SEMINARS (selections from 2005-15)

Brussels 2015, May "La gauche prise au piège de l‘Union européenne ?", Public Lecture,
Institut Emile Vandervelde "Chantiers des idées", 9 May, 2015, Belgium.

Paris 2015, March, Friedich Ebert Stiftung, FEPS, Fondation Jean Jaurès Les socialistes
et l'Europe, Closed Seminar, 13 March 2015, France.

Paris 2014, November: "L'Union Européenne et la fonction programmatique des partis
politiques: la social-démocratie à travers les crises économiques", International
Conference Les études européennes aujourd'hui: enjeux, objectifs, moyens. University of
Paris-8, Institut of European Studies, Paris, 6-8 November 2014.

Warsaw 2014, September: "Social Democracy responds to crises: the 1930s, the recent
economic crisis and the EU impact", International Conference Poland in the Process of
European Integration - A Decade of Experience, panel: The European Leadership, its
Agenda, Political Parties and Voters, Warsaw, 18-20 September 2014.

Bochum 2014, September: "The labour parties' transformation: A historical and
comparative approach", Summer School, Social Movements in Global Perspectives: Past –
Present – Future, Key Speaker, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, 2 September 2014.
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Berlin 2014, July: "Historical Legacies and Political Perspectives of the European Social
Democracy". International Workshop of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Key Speaker,
July 21-23 2014, Berlin.

Paris 2014, February: "La gauche radicale européenne dans le temps long: les enjeux
d'aujourd'hui à la lumière de l'histoire". Key Speaker/Conférence publique, Espaces Marx
and le Lem, 24 February 2014.

Paris 2014, February: "La gauche radicale européenne dans le temps long: crise
financière et trajectoires des partis de gauche radicale en Europe". Key Speaker,
Laboratoire de recherche LabTop/CRESPPA, University of Paris 8. Discussant: Anne
Marijnen (University of Paris-8), 21 February, Paris.

Vienna, 2013, October "The Greek debt Crisis and PASOK: Lessons for European Social
Democracy", Workshop Politicising Europe, Europeanizing Social Democracy, FEPS, Next
Left Working Group, Renner Institut, 20-21 October 2013, Austria.

Thessaloniki, 2013, June: 'The European Radical Left in the Longue Durée' (in Greek),
Conference The Evolution of the Greek Party System, organized by GrEPOP, University of
Macedonia, 6-7 June 2013, Greece.
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Vienna, 2013, March: 'European Integration, the Radical Left and the Destabilization of
the Radical Project', Workshop Politicising Europe, Europeanizing Social Democracy, FEPS,
Next Left Working Group, Renner Institut, 10-11 March 2013, Austria.

Athens, 2012, December: Participation in the final Roundtable and Conclusions of the
Conference Metapolitefsi: from the Transition to Democracy to the Economic Crisis
organized by the journal Historein in cooperation with Freie Universität, Berlin. Goethe
Institut, Athens, December 14-16, 2012, Greece (in Greek).

Berlin 2012, December: 'The "Broken Equilibrium" in European Politics: The Europe
Factor and the Weakening of Mainstream Parties (with an Emphasis on Left parties)'. Paper
delivered at the workshop The Rise of Populism and Extremist Parties in Europe, The
Spinelli Group, Workshop, 1-2 December 2012.

Berlin 2012, November: 'One Step Forward, One Step Back: Debt Crisis, the PES, and the
Limits of Social Democracy'. Paper delivered at the workshop Strengthening Democracy
and Ensuring Social Progress in Europe of 21st Century, FEPS Next Left Research
Programme, Working group, 8-9 November 2012.

Athens 2012, May: 'Between Two Elections: Thoughts about the New Political Landscape
and the Electoral Dynamics" (in Greek), Conference The Greek Elections of May 2012,
Panteion University of Political and Social Sciences, Department of Political Science and
History/Center of Political Studies, 29 May 2012.

Vienna 2012, May: 'The PES and the Debt Crisis', FEPS Next Left Research Programme,
Working group, Seminar, Renner Institut, 13 – 14 May 2012.

Brussels 2011, October: 'Reforming Europe? Social Democracy, the PES and the Debt
Crisis', International Conference, Social Democracy facing Financial Crisis, Free University
of Brussels-ULB, 21-22 October, Belgium.
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Paris 2011, January: 'La social-démocratie à l'épreuve de la gouvernance européenne',
International Conference, Le socialisme européen et le capitalisme, Fondation JeanJaurès, 14-15 January, 2011.

Paris 2010, September: 'L‘Union européenne et la gauche: Les dilemmes modernes du
réformisme et du radicalisme', Congrès Marx International, University of Paris 10,
Nanterre, 22-25 September 2010.

Edinburgh 2010, March: 'The Damocles Sword of the EU Institutions: What Space is Left
for the Left?' Workshop: Another Europe is Possible? The Radical Left and the European
Union, PSA 60th anniversary conference, Edinburgh, 29 March - 1 April 2010, UK.

Brussels 2009, April: 'Etre partout sans être nulle part ? L‘affaiblissement des partis
politiques et la gouvernance européenne', International Conference Le Parlement
européen: Un parlement comme les autres ? Institut d‘Études Européennes, Université
Libre de Bruxelles, 29 April 2009, Belgium.
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Princeton 2009, February: 'Electoral Success Stories: PASOK (1981-2004) and PSOE
(1982-1996) amid the Crisis of European Social Democracy' (Lecture). Discussant: Jonas
Pontusson (Princeton University, Department of Politics). Program in Hellenic Studies, 17
February 2009, Princeton, USA.
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Paris 2008, June: 'Le réformisme dans un système conservateur: L'UE, le piège
institutionnel et l'identité social-démocrate'. Conference Quel Avenir pour la gauche
européenne ? Centre Inderdisciplinaire de Recherche Comparative en Sciences Sociales,
25-26 June, France.
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Boston 2008, May: 'Electoral Dynamics and the Social Democratic Identity'. Discussant:
James Shoch (California State University, Dept. of Government). Conference What’s left
of the Left: Liberalism and Social Democracy in a Globalized World, Harvard University,
Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Cambridge, 9-10 May, 2008, USA.
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Thessaloniki 2008, April: 'Parties and political domination: A comparison between
PASOK and PSOE' (with G. Papanagnou). Conference The new political landscape in
Greece, University of Macedonia, 3-4 April 2008, Greece (in Greek)
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Chicago, 2008 March: 'Lower Classes or Middle Classes? Socialism and its Changing
Constituencies in France, Great Britain, Sweden and Denmark'. Discussant: James Cronin
(Boston College). CES (Council for European Studies)--Columbia University, Sixteenth
International Conference 6-8 March, 2008, USA.
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Brussels 2007 September: 'Does social democracy lack of popular classes? Comments on
the dynamics of the contemporary social-democratic family'. International Conference
Shaping and Reshaping Social Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe, CEVIPOL-ULB, 2829 September 2007, Belgium.
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Paris, 2007 June: 'Classes Sociales et vote social-démocrate : L‘identité socialdémocrate en mutation'. Seminar Revolution Informationnelle, mutations du salariat et
recompositions politiques (Professor Jean Lojkine), Maison des Sciences de l‘Homme,
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 14 June 2007, France.
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Sheffield 2006, June: 'Social Democracy from Without: Identity Change, European Union
and the Future'. Key Speaker. Discussant: John Callaghan. International Conference
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Rethinking Social Democracy (RSD3): Social Democracy in the Post-Bipolar World,
University of Sheffield, Department of Politics, Sheffield, June 28-30 2006, UK.
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Montpellier 2006, February: "L‘Union Européenne et les Partis Politiques: Réflexions sur
la crise du phénomène partisan" (Lecture), Montpellier University 1, Département de
Science Politique, February 2006, France.
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Boston 2005, March: 'Between Past and Future: The Transformation of European Social
Democracy'. Paper delivered at the Conference Social Justice and the Future of European
Social Democracy, Harvard University, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies,
Cambridge-Boston, March 18-19 2005.
SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
December 2008 – March 2009 Stanley J. Seeger Visiting Research fellowship, Program in
Hellenic Studies, Princeton University (see above).
2005 (February-June) Scholarship from the Fulbright Foundation (Greece), Visiting Scholar,
Yale University: Yale Center of International and Area Studies and Department of Politics (see
above).
15 April 1992-15 October 1993
University Paris-II (see above).
Post-Doctoral Scholarship from the French Government,
1991 Honorary Distinction, PhD, University Paris-II (see above).
1983-1987 Scholarship for Doctoral studies in France, State Scholarships Foundation (IKY,
Greece,), Political Science.
RESEARCH-CUM-ADMINISTRATION
a) Administration (selection, recent)
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2010 - present Member of the Steering Committee of the Centre of Political Studies,
Department of Political Science and History, Panteion University of Social and Political
Sciences.
2013 - present Member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic National Academic
Recognition and Information Center (ΔΟΑΤΑΠ).
2009 - 2011 Director of the Faculty section 'Political Sociology and Comparative Political
Analysis', Department of Political Science and History, Panteion University of Social and
Political Sciences.
b)
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Editorial Boards
Member of the Editorial Board of the Greek Journal of Political Science
Member of the International Advisory Board of the French Politics
Member of the International Advisory Board of the journal of political science Pôle Sud
(University of Montpellier, France)
 Member of the Advisory Board of the BCN – Political Science Debate, ICPS
 Member of the Advisory Board of the Greek journal International and European Politics.
c) Referee/Reviewer.
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Greek Journal of Political Science;
West European Politics;
Government and Opposition;
South European Society and Politics;
Journal of Modern Greek Studies;
Pôle Sud;
Ricerche di Storia Politica;
Editions de l'Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Other
1996 –2002 and 2006 –2010 Contributor to the Greek daily newspaper TA NEA
2010-present Contributor to the Greek newspaper To Vima
APPENDIX
ACADEMIC RECEPTION OF MY WORK (selections)
1. In The Name of Social Democracy (London: Verso, 2002).
 'This book is one of the most important contributions to the history of the post-war
European left to be published in the last two dozen years. The French educated Greek
political scientist furnishes a study that is truly groundbreaking'
Gerd-Rainer Horn, International Labor and Working Class History, 64 (Fall 2003):169.
 'An impressive and thorough account of the nature, history and impact of social democracy
that focuses upon the emergence of ''new social democracy'''
Andrew Heywood, Political Ideologies, Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, Third edition,
2003, p.154.
 'Moschonas makes a powerful case that on the basis of the critical criteria he identifies,
social democracy has indeed undergone a "great transformation". By extensively laying
out the nature and extent of this transformation, In the Name of Social Democracy nicely
complements other broad surveys of the movement'.
Sheri Berman, Perspectives on Politics, no 1 (March 2003): 216
 'In the Name of Social Democracy is a well-argued book […]. It skillfully weaves most of
the main lines of the social democratic saga together in a reasoned and eloquent prose,
making it an indispensable reference for all those investigating the nature of change in
one of the most important party families in Europe'.
Robert Ladrech, Party Politics, 9 (4) (2003): 532.
 'Very likely the best analysis of social democracy anyone has put together. A must-read!'
Dennis Pilon, Canadian Dimension (January 2005).
 'If I have raised questions, emphasized different perspectives and attempted to see the
problem through a different pair of lenses, this is not meant to take anything away from
the tremendous achievement of both authors. [...] They are both informative,
intellectually stimulating and argumentative in the best of all academic traditions'.
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Stefan Berger, Labour History Review, Vol.69, no 1, (April 2004): 401. ['Nothing but doom and
Gloom in the House of Social democracy?' Review Essay, including In the Name of Social
Democracy and Noel Thompson's Left in the Wilderness, London Acumen, 2002].
 'Gerassimos Moschonas pratique une épistémologie "middle ground". En s‘opposant aux
analyses déductives simplificatrices comme à l‘extrême cacophonie des études
empiriques, il participe et contribue à cette refondation disciplinaire [....] un livre
original aux conclusions inédites [...] son apport à la compréhension du phénomène
partisan est majeur'.
Cyril Gispert, Revue Internationale de Politique Comparée, Vol. 11, no 4 (2004): 643, 644.
 'This volume demonstrates excellent scholarship and a thorough analysis of a wide variety
of different sources' .
Dimitris Christopoulos, Political Studies Review, vol. 1, no 1 (January 2003)
 '… an excellent study'.
Jenny Andersson, The Library and the Workshop, Social Democracy and Capitalism in the
Knowledge Age. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010, p. 11.
 'Overall, this is a broad and vital work on the present transformation of social democracy'
Murray Cooke, Millennium Journal of International Studies, Vol. 32, no 1 (2003):149.
 ‗On the level of pioneer scientific research, […] the interdisciplinary and thorough analysis
of Gerassimos Moschonas is one of the most important bibliographic references‘
Andreas Pantazopoulos, The Decline of Social Democracy, Athens: To Perasma (2009): 14 (in
Greek).
 'The impasse of socialist policies across the West has yielded a great number of important
reflections on the course of working class politics over the twentieth century. The most
notable of these, Donald Sassoon‘s One Hundred Years of Socialism, Leo Panitch and
Colin Leys‘s The End of Parliamentary Socialism and Gerassimos Moschonas‘s In the Name
of Social Democracy […..]'
Gregory Albo, American Review of Canadian Studies, 2002, December.
 'For those seriously interested in the politics of the Left, I would highly recommend
reading Gerassimos Moschonas‘s widely praised study'
John W. Warnock, Briarpatch Magazine, Vol. 34, No 5 (August 2005).
2. La Social-démocratie de 1945 à nos jours (Paris: Montchrestien, 1994)
 'This excellent book by a Greek scholar working in Crete, although shorter in length, rivals
Merkel‘s study in quality and range'
Perry Anderson, in P. Anderson, P. Camiller (eds), Mapping the West European Left. London:
Verso, 1994, pp. 11-12.
 'Remarquable analyse, la meilleure que j'ai lue de la crise des partis socialistes. La
politique est née en Grèce. Elle y est toujours, on le voit, en grand honneur!'
Henri Pequignot, Vie Sociale, no 5 (1994): 429.
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 'Sa grande force, par un abord comparatiste, est de donner des pistes pour une
observation renouvelée: il invite à déceler avec soin les signes annonciateurs de la
mutation de l'identité social-démocrate'
Pierre Cours-Salies, L'Homme et la Société, Revue Internationale de recherches et de
synthèses en sciences sociales, no 116 (1995/2):149.
 'Lecteurs/trices, attention! Derrière ce petit livre aux allures d‘ouvrage de vulgarisation
ou de synthèse pour étudiants pressés se cache un essai original, dense et soigneusement
argumenté sur ce qui constitue le courant dominant de la gauche européenne. […]
l‘auteur propose un véritable concept de social-démocratie et en déploie les effets au
cours d‘une démonstration rigoureuse et richement documentée'.
Eustache Kouvelakis, Actuel Marx, no 22 (1997): 210-211.
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