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Alexia Katsanidou is a researcher affiliated with GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences and the University of Cologne. Her work focuses on European Union politics, with particular expertise in the Greek economic crisis and its political ramifications.
Her research interests include:
- European integration and crisis management
- Political party system transformations during economic crises
- Emergence of populism in Southern Europe
- Electoral behavior under austerity conditions
- EU-Greece relations during the sovereign debt crisis
Katsanidou's scholarly work demonstrates how economic crises reshape political landscapes, with particular attention to the transformation of Greece's traditionally bipolar party system into a fragmented multi-party landscape. Her research reveals how austerity measures created new political cleavages that cut across traditional left-right divisions, with positions on EU memoranda of understanding becoming the primary dimension of political contestation.
Her work has been published in reputable journals including the Journal of Common Market Studies, where she has analyzed the social impact of austerity, political realignment, and the rise of extreme right parties in Greece. Her research combines quantitative analysis of electoral behavior with qualitative examination of political discourse during crisis periods.
