Profile
Iakovos Makropoulos has a broad range of research interests on the fields of Political Behaviour, Comparative Politics, and Political Methodology. Iakovos joined QMUL in 2024 as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant for the Response to Violence Against Women Mayors in the United States (VAWUS) project (PI. Dr. Sofia Collignon) funded by the Bloomberg Center at Harvard. Previously, he was Lecturer in Political Behaviour and Quantitative Methods at the University of Essex (fixed-term 2022-2023). and Pre-doctoral Research Assistant for the Representative Audit of Britain (RAB) project at the University of Strathclyde (2020-2021).
Research
Research Interests:
- Political Behaviour
- Comparative Politics
- Political Methodology
Examples of research funding:
Research Excellence Award for the degree of Ph.D. in Politics, School of Government and Public Policy, University of Strathclyde, £60,000
Publications
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
Sofia Collignon, Wolfgang Rüdig, Chrysa Lamprinakou, Iakovos Makropoulos and Javier Sajuria. 2023. Interwined Fates? Members Switching between Niche and Mainstream Parties. Party Politics 29 (5): 840-852.
Georgios Karyotis, John Connolly, Sofia Collignon, Andrew Judge, Iakovos Makropoulos, Wolfgang Rüdig, and Dimitris Skleparis. 2021. What Drives Support for Social Distancing? Pandemic Politics, Securitisation and Crisis Management in Britain. European Political Science Review 13 (4):467-487.
Sofia Collignon, Iakovos Makropoulos, and Wolfgang Rüdig. 2021. Consensus Secured? Elite and Public Attitudes to ’Lockdown’ Measures to Combat Covid-19 in England. Journal of Elections Public Opinion and Parties 31(sup1): 109-121.
Book Chapters
Makropoulos, Iakovos, Sofia Collignon, Heiko Giebler, Wolfgang Rüdig, Javier Sajuria and Bernhard Wessels. 2022. Determinants of Personalised Campaigning: A Comparative Analysis. Chapter 5, in Lieven De Winter, Rune Karlsen and Hermann Schmitt (eds.), Parliamentary Candidates Between Voters and Parties. A Comparative Perspective. London: Routledge
