Christos J. Paraskevopoulos, Professor of Political Science.

Christos J. Paraskevopoulos is currently Professor of Political Science and European Public Policy at the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece and Research Associate at the Hellenic Observatory of the LSE/European Institute. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science (dept. of Government) from the London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) in 1999. His previous/other appointments include: Visiting Scholar at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), Harvard University (2012); Stanley J. Seeger Visiting Research Fellow at the Programme in Hellenic Studies, Princeton University (Dec. 2008-Feb. 2009); and a Research Fellow at the European Institute (2001-04), and the Hellenic Observatory (2004-05) of the London School of Economics. He has published widely on social capital, institutions, local economic development and EU Public Policy in various academic journals and edited volumes in the UK, US and Greece. He is the author of Interpreting Convergence in the European Union: Patterns of Collective Action, Social Learning and Europeanization (Palgrave, 2001), while his most recent publications include Learning from Abroad: Regionalization and Local Institutional Infrastructure in Cohesion and Accession Countries (2004), Special Issue of Regional and Federal Studies (co-editor), and Adapting to EU Multi-Level Governance: Regional and Environmental Policies in Cohesion (Greece, Ireland, Portugal) and CEE (Hungary, Poland) Countries, Ashgate, 2006 (co-editor). His current academic and research interests include the comparative study of social capital, diversity and public policy, institutions and local economic development and EU public policy, as well as more recently, the comparative study of varieties of capitalism, quality of government and policy conditionality/liberalization in Greece and Southern Europe.