Anthoula Malkopoulou

Anthoula Malkopoulou is Associate Professor of Political Theory at the Department of Government, Uppsala University, specialised in democratic thought, conceptual history, the ethics of voting, populism and responses to extremism. She is the author of The History of Compulsory Voting in Europe (2015) and co-editor of Militant Democracy and its Critics (2019). Her forthcoming book Theories of Democratic Self-Defence won the 2022 York Political Theory Manuscript Award.

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2022-present Senior Lecturer in Political Theory, Uppsala University

2020-21 Senior Lecturer in Political Theory, Lund University

2019 Seeger Fellow, Princeton University

2017-19 Adjunct Lecturer, Hellenic Open University

2016-18 Research Fellow and Adjunct Lecturer, Uppsala University

2014-16 Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow, Uppsala University

2013 Visiting postdoc, Uppsala University

2012 Erik Allard Fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies

2011 PhD, University of Jyväskylä

I am available for public commentary on topics related to Democracy, Populism, Participation, Parties, and South Europe.

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My main fields of research are contemporary democratic theory, history of political thought, constitutional theory and discourse analysis. I am especially interested in political representation, populism, parliamentarism, and voting rights and have published extensively on compulsory voting, and responses to far-right parties.

Current project:

Theories of Democratic Self-Defence: Exclusion, Toleration, Integration, funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (2023-24)

Recently concluded projects:

Dilemmas of Democratic Self-Defence in European Public Broadcasting, funded by the Swedish Research Council (2021-23)

Populism and Democratic Defence in Europe, funded by the Carlsberg Foundation (2020-23)

Contributivism, funded by the Swedish Research Council (2019-23)

Democratic Self-defense: The Social Model, funded by the MM Wallenberg Foundation (2019-22).