Anthoula Malkopoulou

Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Government; Faculty

Telephone:: +46 18 471 34 57
E-mail:: anthoula.malkopoulou@statsvet.uu.se
Visiting address:: Östra Ågatan 19
753 22 Uppsala
Postal address:: Box 514
751 20 UPPSALA

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ORCID:: 0000-0002-7881-9329

Short presentation

Anthoula Malkopoulou is Associate Professor of Political Theory at the Department of Government, Uppsala University, specialised in democratic thought, conceptual history, voting ethics, 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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Keywords

political theory
democracy

Biography

Employment

2022- Senior Lecturer in Political Theory, Uppsala University

2020-21 Senior Lecturer in Political Theory, Lund University

2019 Seeger Fellow, Princeton University

2016-19 Researcher and Adjunct Lecturer, Uppsala University & Hellenic Open University

2014-16 Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow

2013 Visiting postdoc, Uppsala University

2012 Erik Allard Fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies

Education

2011 PhD, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

2004 MA, University of Copenhagen and European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratization

2002 BA, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

International mobility (only postdoc):

2024 Pontifical Catholic University of Chile; 2019 Trinity College Dublin; 2019 Princeton University; 2016 LUISS Guido Carli University Rome; 2016 Humboldt University Berlin; 2016-19 University of Helsinki; 2015 University of Adelaide.

Other

Steering group, ECPR Standing Group on Political Concepts

Associate editor, Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory.

Faculty Representative, Committee for Equal Opportunities

Media queries

Topics: Democracy, Populism, Participation, Parties, Southern Europe.

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Research

My main research is in democratic theory, and includes theories of democratic self-defence and militant democracy, representative institutions such as compulsory voting, sortition and ostracism, as well as populism, citizenship and secessionism. I am also interested in political ethics, rhetoric, ancient political thought, and political ideologies.

Current project:

Academic actors as guardians of democracy?, funded by the Democracy and Higher Education Programme, Uppsala University (2025-26)

Recently concluded projects:

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

Dilemmas of Democratic Self-Defence in European Public Broadcasting, funded by the Swedish Research Council (2021-24)

Populism and Democratic Defence in Europe, funded by the Carlsberg Foundation (2020-24)

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

Democratic Self-Defense: The Social Model, funded by Marianne & Marcus Wallenberg Foundation (2019-22)

Media

2025-03-01 / Innocence Lost: The Moral Costs of Defending Democracy. Democratic Expeditions paper, Bonn/Vienna: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.

2024-05-16 / Safeguarding democracy important as extremist parties grow in EU

Publications

Selection of publications

Recent publications

All publications

Articles in journal

Articles, review/survey

Books

The History of Compulsory Voting in Europe: Democracy's Duty?

Malkopoulou, Anthoula

Routledge, 2014
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Chapters in book

Herman Heller on Democratic Self-defence: Militant Democracy Revisited

Malkopoulou, Anthoula

Part of Hermann Hellers demokratischer Konstitutionalismus, p. 185-202, Springer Nature, 2022
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More Representation, Less Radicalism: How Compulsory Voting Was Defended in Europe

Malkopoulou, Anthoula

Part of A Century of Compulsory Voting in Australia, p. 213-233, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021
- DOI for More Representation, Less Radicalism: How Compulsory Voting Was Defended in Europe
Political Rhetoric in the Refugee Crisis in Greece

Karayiannis, Yiannis; Malkopoulou, Anthoula

Part of National Rhetorics in the Syrian Immigration Crisis, p. 69-96, Michigan State University Press, 2019
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The Paradox of Democratic Selection: Is Lottery Better than Voting?

Malkopoulou, Anthoula

Part of Parliamentarism and Democracy Theory, p. 229-253, Verlag Barbara Budrich, 2015
Democratizing Deliberation: Parliamentarism, Deliberative Democracy and Lotteries

Malkopoulou, Anthoula

Part of In Debate with Kari Palonen, p. 157-162, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2015
Eurozone Crisis and Parliamentary Democracy: Lessons from the Greek Case

Malkopoulou, Anthoula

Part of The Meanings of Europe, p. 160-176, Routledge, 2014
Does Voting Matter?: The Devaluation of Elections in Contemporary Democratic Theory

Malkopoulou, Anthoula

Part of The Politics of Dissensus, p. 81-99, McGraw-Hill, 2014
Electoral Reform and Ideological Contingency: Has Compulsory Voting Moved from Right to Left?

Malkopoulou, Anthoula

Part of Left and Right, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013
Rhetorical Reform of Voting Rights in Nineteenth-Century France

Malkopoulou, Anthoula

Part of Rhetoric, Politics and Conceptual Change, p. 36-47, Finnish Institute at Athens, 2011

Collections (editor)

Militant Democracy and Its Critics: Populism, Parties, Extremism

Malkopoulou, Anthoula; Kirshner, Alexander

Edinburgh University Press, 2019
Equality and Representation: New Perspectives in Democratic Theory

Malkopoulou, Anthoula; Hill, Lisa

Routledge, 2018
Equal Representation: New Perspectives in Democratic Theory

Malkopoulou, Anthoula; Hill, Lisa

Routledge, 2016
Rhetoric, Politics and Conceptual Change

Palonen, Kari; Malkopoulou, Anthoula

Finnish Institute at Athens, 2011

Conference papers

Innocence Lost: The Moral Costs of Defending Democracy

Malkopoulou, Anthoula

p. 1-6, 2025
Against Εlections?: Critical Conceptions of Voting in Contemporary Democratic Theory

Malkopoulou, Anthoula

2012

Monograph doctoral thesis

Democracy's Duty: The History of Political Debates on Compulsory Voting

Malkopoulou, Anthoula

2011