Researcher

SHORT CV

Paris Aslanidis is an Associate Researcher at the National Centre for Social Research (EKKE) in Athens. His work brings together comparative politics, social movement studies and computational social science, with a focus on populism. He has published in political science and sociology journals such as Political Studies, Sociological Forum, Mobilization and Quality & Quantity. His monograph Populist Mobilization was published by Oxford University Press in 2024. The Greek edition, Aganaktismenoi: Laikistika Kinimata se Ellada kai Islandia (Indignados: Populist Movements in Greece and Iceland), was published by Alexandreia in 2026.

From 2024 to 2026 he was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at EKKE with the GREEKPOP project, which studies the political history of Greek populism through parliamentary speech. As part of the project, he created Eleni, a fully digitized corpus of the Greek parliamentary debates (Efimeris ton Syzitiseon tis Voulis, 1862–1967), available at eleni.ekke.gr. His recent research uses large language models to detect forms of populist rhetoric.

Before joining EKKE, he taught political science at Yale University (2015–2024). He has been a visiting fellow at the Scuola Normale Superiore, the European University Institute and Central European University. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Macedonia.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Populism
• Social Movements
• Party Systems
• Frame Theory
• Intellectual History
• Computational Social Science

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Aslanidis, Paris. (2024). Populist Mobilization. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Ασλανίδης, Πάρις. (2026). Αγανακτισμένοι: Λαϊκιστικά Κινήματα σε Ελλάδα και Ισλανδία. Αθήνα: Εκδόσεις Αλεξάνδρεια.
• Aslanidis, Paris. (2016). “Is Populism an Ideology? A Refutation and a New Perspective”. Political Studies 64(IS): 88-104.
• Aslanidis, Paris. (2018). "Measuring populist discourse with semantic text analysis: an application on grassroots populist mobilization". Quality & Quantity 52 (3): 1241-1263.
• Chalkidis, Ilias, Stephanie Brandl & Paris Aslanidis. (2026). “Identifying fine-grained forms of populism in political discourse: A case study on Donald Trump’s presidential campaigns”. Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers): 919-936, 2026/3.
• Kaltwasser, C. Rovira & Paris Aslanidis. (2016). "Dealing with populists in government: the SYRIZA-ANEL coalition in Greece". Democratization 23 (6): 1077-1091.
• Aslanidis, Paris. (2016). "Populist social movements of the Great Recession". Mobilization: An International Quarterly 21 (3): 301-321.
• Aslanidis, Paris. (2017). “Populism and Social Movements”. Pp. 305-325 in The Oxford Handbook of Populism, edited by C. Rovira Kaltwasser, P. Taggart, P. Ochoa Espejo & P. Ostiguy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.