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Yannis Papadopoulos

Yannis Papadopoulos

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Political Science

D-Index
31
Citations
5171
World Ranking
1078
National Ranking
26

Overview

Yannis Papadopoulos is affiliated with the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. Their research expertise spans across social sciences, with a strong focus on political science, public administration, and business-related fields such as management and accounting.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Business, Management and Accounting

Within these, their subfields cover:

  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Strategy and Management
  • Public Administration
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Management Science and Operations Research

The core topics of their work focus primarily on:

  • Public Policy and Administration Research
  • Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering
  • Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
  • European Union Policy and Governance
  • Policy Transfer and Learning
  • Regulation and Compliance Studies
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation

Yannis Papadopoulos has published in several peer-reviewed journals. They have recent publications in:

  • Understanding Felt Accountability (2020), published in Governance
  • Happily unaccountable? Perceptions of accountability by public managers (2022), Public Policy and Administration
  • The impact of direct democracy on policy change: insights from European citizens' initiatives (2022), Policy & Politics
  • Conflictual Accountability: Behavioral Responses to Conflictual Accountability of Agencies (2021), Administration & Society
  • Public sector accountability styles in Europe comparing accountability and control of agencies in the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland and the UK (2022), Public Policy and Administration

They frequently collaborate with other researchers, including:

  • Martino Maggetti
  • Jale Tosun
  • Daniel Béland
  • Thomas Schillemans
  • Sjors Overman

Publication venues where Yannis has concentrated their output include:

  • Regulation & Governance
  • Public Policy and Administration
  • Governance
  • Policy & Politics
  • Journal of Trust Research

In addition to journal articles, they have contributed to academic books, notably publishing with Cambridge University Press. Their book titled Understanding Accountability in Democratic Governance was released in 2023.

Best Publications

  • Are innovative, participatory and deliberative procedures in policy making democratic and effective?

    Yannis Papadopoulos;Philippe Warin

  • Problems of Democratic Accountability in Network and Multilevel Governance

    Yannis Papadopoulos

  • Cooperative forms of governance: Problems of democratic accountability in complex environments

    Yannis Papadopoulos

  • Accountability and Multi-level Governance: More Accountability, Less Democracy?

    Yannis Papadopoulos

  • Governance and democracy : comparing national, European and international experiences

    Arthur Benz;Yannis Papadopoulos

  • Democracy in Crisis?: Politics, Governance and Policy

    Yannis Papadopoulos

  • Governance und Demokratie

    Yannis Papadopoulos

  • How does direct democracy matter? The impact of referendum votes on politics and policy‐making

    Yannis Papadopoulos

  • Complexité sociale et politiques publiques

    Yannis Papadopoulos

  • How party linkages shape austerity politics: clientelism and fiscal adjustment in Greece and Portugal during the eurozone crisis

    Alexandre Afonso;Sotirios Zartaloudis;Yannis Papadopoulos

  • Les processus de décision fédéraux en Suisse

    Yannis Papadopoulos;Silvia Kobi;Isabelle Moroni

  • From corporatism to partisan politics : social policy making under strain in Switzerland

    Silja Häusermann;André Mach;Yannis Papadopoulos

  • Economic regulatory reforms in Switzerland: adjustment without European integration, or how rigidities become flexible

    André Mach;Silja Häusermann;Yannis Papadopoulos

  • How Democratic Is “Governance”? Lessons from Swiss Drug Policy

    Sonja Wälti;Daniel Küjbler;Yannis Papadopoulos

  • How the Populist Radical Right Transformed Swiss Welfare Politics: From Compromises to Polarization

    Alexandre Afonso;Yannis Papadopoulos

  • Populism, the Democratic Question, and Contemporary Governance

    Yannis Papadopoulos

  • Handbook of Swiss Politics

    Ulrich Klöti;Peter Knoepfel;Hanspeter Kriesi;Wolf Linder

  • On the Politicisation of the European Union: Lessons from Consociational National Polities

    Yannis Papadopoulos;Paul Magnette

  • The Principal–Agent Framework and Independent Regulatory Agencies

    Martino Maggetti;Yannis Papadopoulos

  • Positioning accountability in European governance: an introduction

    Deirdre Curtin;Peter Mair;Yannis Papadopoulos

  • Understanding Felt Accountability: The institutional antecedents of the felt accountability of agency-CEO's to central government

    Thomas Schillemans;Sjors Overman;Paul Fawcett;Matthew Flinders

  • Transparency : from Bentham’s inventory of virtuous effects to contemporary evidence-based scepticism

    Sandrine Baume;Yannis Papadopoulos

  • Implementing (and radicalizing) art. I-47.4 of the Constitution: is the addition of some (semi-)direct democracy to the nascent consociational European federation just Swiss folklore?*

    Yannis Papadopoulos

  • Governance, Coordination and Legitimacy in Public Policies

    Yannis Papadopoulos

  • On the politicization of the European consociation: A middle way between Hix and Bartolini

    Paul Magnette;Yannis Papadopoulos

  • Handbuch der Schweizer Politik / Manuel de la politique Suisse

    Peter Knoepfel;Yannis Papadopoulos;Pascal Sciarini;Adrian Vatter

Frequent Co-Authors

Silja Häusermann
Silja Häusermann University of Zurich
Matthew J.A. Wood
Matthew J.A. Wood University of Oxford
Deirdre Curtin
Deirdre Curtin European University Institute
Per Lægreid
Per Lægreid University of Bergen
Peter Mair
Peter Mair European University Institute
Pascal Sciarini
Pascal Sciarini University of Geneva
Arthur Benz
Arthur Benz Technical University of Darmstadt
Matthew Flinders
Matthew Flinders University of Sheffield
Adrian Vatter
Adrian Vatter University of Bern

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