1 Department of Political Science University of Pittsburgh 4600 Wesley W. Posvar Hall Pittsburgh, PA 15260 Email: dalexiad@pitt.edu Despina Alexiadou Updated August 2015 EMPLOYMENT University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA, Department of Political Science, Assistant Professor (fall 2008- ). University of Warwick, Coventry, England, Department of Political and International Studies, ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow (2007-2008). Duke University, Durham, USA, Department of Political Science, Visiting Assistant Professor (fall 2006). University of Warwick, Coventry, England, Department of Political and International Studies, Part- time Lecturer (2005-2006). ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, Visiting scholar at the Centre for Political Studies (2004-2005) EDUCATION European University Institute, Florence, Italy, PhD in Political Science. Thesis Jury: M. Rhodes, W. R. Clark, A. Héritier, F. McGillivray, (December 2005). New York University, New York, USA, PhD exchange student. Duke University: Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models, Durham, USA (summer 2004). Essex Summer School, Colchester, UK, (summer 2003). Warwick University, Coventry, UK, MA in International Political Economy. Dissertation title: Bretton Woods and the issue of Capital Controls. (January 2001). University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece, BA in the department of International & European Economic & Political Studies (summer 1999). BOOKS (REFEREED) Ideologues, Partisans and Loyalists: Ministers and Policy- Making in Parliamentary Cabinets. 2016. Oxford University Press: Oxford UK
2 ARTICLES (REFEREED) Ideologues, Partisans and Loyalists: Cabinet Ministers and Social Welfare Reform in Parliamentary Democracies. 2015. Comparative Political Studies 48(8): 1051-1086 In Search of Successful Reform: The Politics of Opposition and Consensus i OECD Parliamentary Democracies. 2013. West European Politics 36 (4): 704-725 Finding Political Capital for Monetary Tightening: Unemployment Insuranc and Monetary Cycles. 2012. European Journal of Political Research 51(6): 809-836 OTHER ARTICLES Political Economy. 2011. International Encyclopedia of Political Science, edited by Bertrand Badie, Dirk Berg- Schlosser and Leonardo Morlino, Thousand Oaks, CA, SAGE Publications, Inc. The Politics of Economic Adjustment: Technocratic Appointments and Representation in Economically Advanced Democracies. with Hakan Gunaydin. 2013. APSA Comparative Politics Newsletter Social Democratic Parties in Europe Transform Through Employment Policies. 2013. European Union Center of Excellence Newsletter Economic Benefits, EU Identity, & Knowledge: The Trilemma of Public Support For the Single Currency with Dionysia Tamvaki. 2011. European Union Center of Excellence Newsletter WORKING PAPERS (SELECTED) Platforms, Portfolios and Policy: How Audience Costs Affect Social Welfare Policy in Multiparty Cabinets, with Danial Hoepfner Selecting the right minister: The Appointments and Policy Effects of Technocrat and Expert Ministers with Hakak Gunaydin Who governs? Professional Politicians, Wall Street or the People? GRANTS AND AWARDS Are Strong Leaders Good for Parties? With Eoin O Malley and Akisato Suzuk European Union Center of Excellence Faculty Research Grant to support the project Loyalty, Diversity and Survival ($1,820, summer 2015) Hewlett International Faculty Grant to support the project Selecting the right minister with Hakan Gunaydin ($1,300, Spring 2015) European Union Center of Excellence Small Grant ($1,500, Fall 2014) European Union Center of Excellence Faculty Research Grant to support the project Market Biases and Self- Fulfilling Prophecies in European Economic Crises with Julia Gray ($2,700, summer 2014)
3 European Union Center of Excellence Faculty Research Grant to complete data collection for book project ($4,300, summer 2013) European Union Center of Excellence Faculty Research Grant for data collection for book project ($4,000, summer 2012) European Union Center of Excellence Grant for book workshop When Ministers Matter ($2,000, Fall 2011) European Union Center of Excellence Faculty Research Grant for the project Ministerial Careers and Policy in Europe ($9,000 winter/ summer 2011) Summer Research Stipend from the School of Arts and Sciences for the project: Ministers and Policy Outcomes in Parliamentary Democracies ($4,000 summer 2010) European Union Center of Excellence Faculty Research Grant for the project The Janus Face of the EU ($2,000, summer 2009) European Union Center of Excellence Small Grant for presentation at Scienc Po, Paris, September 2008 ($1,000, fall 2008) NSF scholarship to attend a four week summer (EITM) school in Duke University (Summer 2004) European University Institute Travel Grant to conduct field work (interview in London, Spring 2002) European University Institute scholarship to visit NYU as an exchange PhD student (fall semester 2003-2004) European University Institute funding to attend a six week summer school i Essex University (Summer 2003) European University Institute funding to conduct interviews in the City of London as part of my research project (Spring 2002) Awarded first prize of excellence from the IKY (Greek State s Scholarships Foundation) foe my third year of undergraduate studies (1997-1998) INVITED PRESENTATIONS /WORKSHOPS University of Toronto, Workshop Global Imbalances, June 2-3 2015 European Union Center of Excellence, University of Pittsburgh, Talk with th title: The Greek Elections: Implications for Greece and for Europe, Februar 2015
4 Denver University, Korbel School of International Studies, Talk with the title Ideologues, Partisans and Bureaucrats: the role of cabinet ministers and th Troika in economic policymaking in the European Union", October 2012 University of Pittsburgh, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Talk with the title: The New Emerging Economies of the EU: Debt Crisis and its Effects o Greece and Ireland, January 2012 European Union Center of Excellence, University of Pittsburgh, Presentation on The Eurozone Crisis: Implications and Prospects, October 2011 University of Pittsburgh Student International Relations Society, Roundtabl discussion: European Union and Challenges for the Future, February 2011 University of Essex Political Economy Series, Partisan Ministers versus Partisan Cabinets, November 2010 European Union Center of Excellence, University of Pittsburgh, Roundtable discussion: Why the Violence? A Discussion about Greek Politics and Society with Dr Achilleas Mitsos, February 2009 Science Po, Paris, Workshop Economic Protectionism, September 2015 Emory Political Economy Speakers Series, The Politics of Disinflation, December 2006 PRESENTATIONS (SELECTED) 2015 Are Strong Leaders Good for Parties? with Eoin O Malley and Akisato Suzuki, delivered at the European Political Science Association Conference, Vienna, June 2015 Selecting the right minister: The appointments and policy effects of technocrat and expert ministers with Hakan Gunaydin, delivered at the Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, 2015 2014 Regressive Taxation as Political Necessity: Adversarial Politics and Hidden Taxes in the OECD, delivered at the European Political Science Consortium Conference, Glasgow, September 2014 Who Governs? Professional background, political experience and party seniority of cabinet ministers in 18 parliamentary democracies invited for presentation at the panel "New Datasets (and Findings) on the Characteristics of World Leaders" at the American Political Science Association Conference, Washington D.C, September 2014 Market Biases and Self- Fulfilling Prophecies in Bailout Countries with Juli Gray, delivered at the European Political Science Association Conference, Edinburgh, June 2014
5 2013 2012 2011 Old and New Guard of Social Democrats and Employment Policy delivered at the American Political Science Association, Chicago, September 2013 The politics of economic adjustment: technocratic appointments and representation in economically advanced parliamentary democracies, with Hakan Gunaydin, delivered at the European Political Science Association Conference, Barcelona, June 2013. Ideologues, Partisans and Bureaucrats: Cabinet ministers and economic decision- making in Parliamentary democracies delivered at the European Political Science Association conference, Berlin, June 2012 Ministers and parties in a global economy delivered at the International Political Economy Society conference, Madison, November 2011 Why and When ministers matter delivered at the American Political Science Association, Seattle, September 2011 & the European Political Science Association Conference, Dublin, June 2011 Ministerial appointments and policy efficacy in a global economy delivere at the International Conference of Europeanists, Barcelona, June 2011 Ministerial Background and Policy Efficacy delivered at the European Consortium for Political Research, St Gallen, April 2011 2010 2009 Partisan Ministers versus Partisan Cabinets, delivered at the Council of European Studies, Montreal, Canada, April 2010 The role of electoral systems and political trust on globalization attitudes in Europe, delivered at the European Consortium for Political Research, Potsdam, Germany, September 2009 Who decides on your unemployment benefits?: Why and when social democratic ministers deliver their promises?, delivered at the American Political Science Association annual conference, Toronto, September, 2009 EMU: A legitimate response to the challenge of economic globalization? Public opinion towards the Euro resets the legitimacy debate on efficient global economic governance delivered at the European Consortium for Political Research, Lisbon, April 2009: (with Dionysia Tamvaki) Economic fundamentals and electoral institutions as determinants of economic protectionism in Europe 2009. Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2009 2008 Financing the Welfare State: Employers contributions and unemployment in minority and majority governments, delivered at the European Consortium of Political Science joint sessions in Rennes, April, 2008. Party system, political representation and social insurance in the OECD
6 2006 countries delivered at the American Political Association conference, Philadelphia, September 2006 The role of policy weights on economic outcomes; why coalition governments can undertake policy changes delivered at the EITM Poster section at Midwest Political Science Association conference, Chicago, April 2006 2005 Coalition governments, social insurance and central bank independence versus inflation: fighting inflation alone or together? delivered at the American Political Science Association conference, Washington, September 2005 Price stability, social transfers and partisanship delivered at Midwest Political Science Association conference, Chicago, April 2005 COURSES TAUGHT Undergraduate Courses (University of Pittsburgh) Capstone seminar: Income Inequality and Welfare States in Europe and the USA Capstone seminar: Public Policy in Europe Capstone seminar: Comparative Welfare States of Industrialized Economies, Upper level course: West European Politics, University of Pittsburg Large Section Introductory course: Introduction to Comparative Politics Undergraduate Courses (University of Warwick) Third year undergraduate module The Politics of European Union Policy Making Graduate Courses Graduate Seminar Comparative Political Economy of Industrialized Economies, University of Pittsburgh Graduate Seminar Introduction to Cross Section Time Series, Duke University TEACHING FELLOWSHIPS Holder of GPA teaching award, University of Warwick (spring 2007) Writing in the Disciplines Seminar Fellowship (spring 2013) ADVISING PhD dissertation committees in the Political Science Department at University of Pittsburgh: Sarah Cormack Patton: she defended her dissertation in May 2015, and has been offered a post- doctoral fellowship at Stanford University Emilie Blais: she defended her dissertation in June 23 2015 Andrea Aldrich: dissertation defense expected in September 2015. Has been
7 offered a visiting position at Texas A&M. Yasemin Irepoglu: completed fieldwork and is working towards completion. Lecturer at UC Riverside Hakan Gunaydin: Completed fieldwork and is working toward completion MA thesis committees in the Political Science Department at University of Pittsburgh: Hethba Fatnassi: thesis defended April 2009 Aldrea Aldrich: thesis defended April 2011 Hakan Gunaydin: thesis defended April 2013 Sebastian Garaycoa: thesis defended April 2015 Undergraduate at the University of Pittsburgh Callum Abbott: Honor s College thesis, defended April 2013 Mackenzie Weiler: Art s and Science s Brackenridge Award for independent research, project completed December 2012 Harris Clapsis: project: pension reform and technocracy in Greece, complete April 2013 Stephanie Schneider: project: pension reform and technocracy in Austria, completed December 2012 Graduate Teaching Mentor at the University of Pittsburgh Sebastian Garaycoa: 2013-2014 Josh Kaasik: 2014-2015 DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE University of Pittsburgh Technology and Alumni Relations Committee (2012-2015) Chair of Alumni Affairs (2014-2015) Departmental newsletter coordinator (2012-2013) European Politics Search Committee (2011-2013) Graduates Awards Committee (2011-2012) Graduate admissions committee, University of Pittsburgh (2010-2011) Graduate Professionalization Workshop (panelist), Fall 2013, Fall 2014 University of Warwick Organized the bi- weekly seminar International Political Economy at the department of Politics and International Studies, 2007-2008 UNIVERSITY SERVICE Campus Evaluation Committee for the US Student Fulbright Program, University of Pittsburgh SERVICE TO THE DISCIPLINE Comparative Politics and Political Economy Section Co- Chair for the 2015 European Political Science Association Conference, Vienna 2015 REFEREE American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science,
8 Journal of Politics, International Studies Quarterly, Oxford University Press, Journal of Common Market Studies, European Political Science Review, Electoral Studies, Comparative European Politics, PS: Political Science and Politics, St. Anthony s International Review, Pitt Politics Review CONFERENCES ORGANIZED Organized a conference on Taxation and the Welfare state in Europe, University of Warwick, May 15 th 2008. MEMBER OF PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS American Political Science Association, Midwest Political Science Associatio European Consortium of Political Science, Council for European Studies European Political Science Association LANGUAGES Greek (mother- tongue), English (Fluent) French, Italian (Intermediate) Dutch (Beginner)