Anthoula Malkopoulou, Ph.D.

anthoula.malkopoulou@statsvet.uu.se

Uppsala Universitet

Country: Sweden

About Me:

I am a democratic theorist and historian of political thought, based at the Department of Government, Uppsala University since 2012. A recipient of several fellowships, including the Seeger Fellowship at Princeton University (2019) and the Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship (2014-16), I have a PhD from the Centre of Excellence in Political Thought, University of Jyväskylä (2011), and in 2018 I became Docent (Habilitation) at Uppsala University. From 2019 until 2023, I will work on two research projects, "Democratic self-defense: The social model" (funded by the MM Wallenberg Foundation) and "Contributivism" (funded by the Swedish Research Council), both at Uppsala University.

Research Interests

Political Theory

European Politics

Political Participation

Representation and Electoral Systems

Comparative Democratization

Compulsory Voting

Democratic Theory

Democratic Backsliding

Democratic Innovations

Democratic Norms

Political Representation

Countries of Interest

Greece

Sweden

Germany

Belgium

Australia

My Research:

My main research interests lie at the intersection of democratic theory, constitutional law and electoral politics. I am also interested in 19th and 20th century political thought, ancient democracy, ideas of representation, voting rights, populism, parliamentarism and rhetoric. 

I have authored The History of Compulsory Voting in Europe (Routledge 2015) and co-edited Militant Democracy and its Critics (with Alexander Kirshner, Edinburgh University Press 2019), Equal Representation(with Lisa Hill, CRISPP Special issue 19, 3, 2016) and Rhetoric, Politics and Conceptual Change (with Kari Palonen, 2011). My articles have appeared in journals such as History of Political Thought, Redescriptions, Political Studies, Constellations and Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophyalong with many book chapters and public commentariesSince 2016, I am co-editor of Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory.