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Dionyssis Dimitrakopoulos

  • Overview

    Overview

    Biography

    Dr Dimitrakopoulos holds degrees from Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (Athens), the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Institut d’Etudes Européennes) and the University of Hull.

    He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has held fellowships at Oxford and the LSE after having worked as a stagiaire in the Secretariat General of the European Commission. He has won research funding from, inter alia, the ESRC, the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, and the European Union.

    He directs the MSc in European Politics & Policy, has served on the ESRC’s Peer Review College (2010-14) and has acted as external referee for the Agence Nationale de la Recherche, France, the Scientific Research Fund, Flanders, Belgium, as well as several academic journals. In addition to English and Greek, he is fluent in French and has a working knowledge of the German language.

    He has served on the Brexit Policy Panel convened under the auspices of the ESRC’s UK in a Changing Europe programme. In 2018 he served as a jury member for the award of the best paper prize for the best paper presented on European politics and society at the 2017 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. 

    In August 2020 he was awarded a Jean Monnet Chair (the first in Birkbeck's history) that will focus on the politics of parliamentary democracy and European integration. To find out more about the Jean Monnet Chair, visit its website.

    Dr Dimitrakopoulos is also the curator of Birkbeck's Talking Europe vlog.

    Web profiles

    ORCID

    0000-0002-6101-4022
  • Research

    Research

    Research overview

    His research and teaching focuses on the politics of European integration both at the EU and the domestic level of government. He has particular interests in the institutional development and operation of the European Union, the role of ideas and norms in political processes, the conflict between the supporters of regulated capitalism and their neo-liberal opponents over the future of the EU, the way in which EU policy is implemented at the national level (especially in the UK, France and Greece), and how national parties define (and, when in government, pursue) their preferences on the EU. His work has appeared in leading refereed journals including Political Studies, the European Journal of Political Research, the European Journal of International Relations, the Journal of Public Policy, the Journal of Common Market Studies, the Journal of European Public Policy and the European Law Journal.

    Current research focuses on the politics of emergency in the European Union (see here the paper presented in the 2016 UACES conference in London), the reform of the Greek tax collection institutions (project funded by the LSE; see here a related conference paper; the corresponding book co-authored with Prof. Argyris G. Passas appeared in October 2019).

  • Supervision and teaching

    Supervision and teaching

    Supervision

    Current doctoral researchers

    • DILWYN GRIFFITHS

    Teaching

    Teaching modules

    • European and International Public Policy (SSPO266S7)
  • Publications

    Publications

    Article

    Book

    • Dimitrakopoulos, Dionyssis G., ed. (2004) The changing European commission. Europe in Change. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. ISBN 9780719067778.
    • Dimitrakopoulos, Dionyssis G. and Passas, A.G. (2003) Greece in the European Union. Europe and the Nation State. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780415258111.

    Book Section

    • Christiansen, T. and Ceron, M. and Dimitrakopoulos, Dionyssis (2024) Whither the Spitzenkandidaten process?. In: Ceron, M. and Christiansen, T. and Dimitrakopoulos, Dionyssis (eds.) The Politicisation of the European Commission’s Presidency: Spitzenkandidaten and Beyond. European Administrative Governance. Palgrave. ISBN 9783031481727. (In Press)
    • Dimitrakopoulos, Dionyssis (2024) Paths to Spitzenkandidaten. In: Ceron, M. and Christiansen, T. and Dimitrakopoulos, Dionyssis (eds.) The Politicisation of the European Commission’s Presidency: Spitzenkandidaten and Beyond. European Administrative Governance. Palgrave/Springer. ISBN 9783031481727. (In Press)
    • Dimitrakopoulos, Dionyssis and Ceron, M. and Christiansen, T. (2024) The politicisation of the European Commission's presidency. In: Ceron, M. and Christiansen, T. and Dimitrakopoulos, Dionyssis (eds.) The Politicisation of the European Commission’s Presidency: Spitzenkandidaten and Beyond. European Administrative Governance. Palgrave. ISBN 9783031481727. (In Press)
    • Dimitrakopoulos, Dionyssis G. (2023) An architectural perspective of the EU's institutions (Μια αρχιτεκτονική θέαση των θεσμών της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης).. In: Dimitrakopoulos, Dionyssis G. and Kanellopoulou-Malouchou, N. and Tsekos, T. and Chryssochoou, D.N. (eds.) Μια αρχιτεκτονική θέαση των θεσμών της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης. Σε Συναρμογές στον Ευρωπαϊκό Λογισμό: Πολιτεία, Διακυβέρνηση, Πολιτικές. Έπαινος στον Αργύρη Γ. Πασσά. Birkbeck Jean Monnet Paper Series. Athens, Greece: Papazissis. (In Press)
    • Dimitrakopoulos, Dionyssis G. (2022) The EU's internal policies. In: Kenealy, D. and Hadfield, A. and Corbett, R. and Peterson, J. (eds.) The European Union: How does it work? 6th edition. New European Union Series. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198862246. (In Press)
    • Hussein, K. and Dimitrakopoulos, Dionyssis G. (2007) Leader or bystander? the European Commission and EU treaty reform. In: Beach, D. and Mazzucelli, C. (eds.) Leadership in the Big Bangs of European Integration. Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 94-114. ISBN 9780230599642.
    • Dimitrakopoulos, Dionyssis G. and Passas, A.G. (2004) Governing without government?. In: Dimitrakopoulos, Dionyssis G. (ed.) The Changing European Commission. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. pp. 153-163. ISBN 9780719067778.
    • Dimitrakopoulos, Dionyssis G. and Passas, A.G. (2004) Introduction. In: Dimitrakopoulos, Dionyssis G. (ed.) The Changing European Commission. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. pp. 1-11. ISBN 9780719067778.
    • Dimitrakopoulos, Dionyssis G. (2003) Europeanisation and the Greek policy style: national or sectoral?. In: Dimitrakopoulos, Dionyssis G. and Passas, A.G. (eds.) Greece in the European Union. Europe and the Nation State. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 139-147. ISBN 9780415258111.
    • Dimitrakopoulos, Dionyssis G. (2003) Greece: an introduction to patterns of EU membership. In: Dimitrakopoulos, Dionyssis G. and Passas, A.G. (eds.) Greece in the European Union. Europe and the Nation State. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 3-15. ISBN 9780415258111.
    • Dimitrakopoulos, Dionyssis G. and Page, E. (2003) Paradoxes in EU administration. In: Hesse, J.J. and Hood, C. and Peters, B.G. (eds.) Paradoxes in Public Sector Reform: An International Comparison. Berlin, Germany: Duncker and Humblot. pp. 317-333. ISBN 9783428107988.
    • Passas, A.G. and Dimitrakopoulos, Dionyssis G. (2002) The Treaty of Nice, the presumed end of incrementalism and the future of the European Union. In: Melissas, D. and Pernice, I. (eds.) Perspectives on the Nice Treaty of Nice and the Intergovernmental Conference in 2004. Baden-Baden, Germany: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. pp. 30-40. ISBN 9783789077722.
    • Dimitrakopoulos, Dionyssis G. and Richardson, J. (2001) Implementing EU public policy. In: Richardson, J. (ed.) European Union: Power and Policy-Making. European public policy. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 335-356. ISBN 9780415221658.
    • Dimitrakopoulos, Dionyssis G. (1998) Andreas G. Papandreou. In: Kavanagh, D. and Riches, C. (eds.) Dictionary of Political Biography. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. pp. 374-375. ISBN 9780199569137.
    • Dimitrakopoulos, Dionyssis G. (1998) Eleftherios Venizelos. In: Kavanagh, D. and Riches, C. (eds.) Dictionary of Political Biography. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. pp. 489. ISBN 9780199569137.
    • Dimitrakopoulos, Dionyssis G. (1998) Konstantinos Karamanlis. In: Kavanagh, D. and Riches, C. (eds.) Dictionary of Political Biography. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. pp. 253-254. ISBN 9780199569137.