Gerassimos Moschonas, PhD University of Paris-II, is Professor of Comparative Politics in the Department of Political Science and History, Panteion University of Political and Social Sciences, Athens, Greece.
He has held visiting positions at Free University of Brussels (for many semesters), University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, SciencesPo-Paris, Princeton University, Yale University, University of Leicester, University of Paris 8, Montpellier 1 University, and the University of Paris-II.
He is the author of In the Name of Social Democracy, The Great Transformation: 1945 to the Present (London: Verso, 2002) and La Social-démocratie de 1945 à nos jours (Paris: Montchrestien, 1994).
Recent publications (selection): ‘European Social Democracy, Communism and the Erfurtian Model’ (chapter: SAGE, 2018); ‘Superficial Social Democracy: PASOK, the State and the Shipwreck of the Greek Economy’ (chapter: Palgrave, 2020); ‘The anti-SYRIZA current: Composition, scope and dynamics’ (with Angelos Seriatos, chapter: Gutenberg, 2022 [in Greek]); ‘Economic crises as game-changing events – or not any more? The social democratic response to the financial and sovereign debt crises in the light of the 1929 Crash’ (chapter: FEPS – Foundation for European Progressive Studies and Karl-Renner-Institut, 2022).
Fields of research: History of the European Left, Social Democracy, Radical Left, European Union and Political Parties, Europarties, Economic Crises and Left Parties, Elections, Greek Politics.