Manolis Kalaitzake
Job Title
Lecturer in Political Economy

Room number
B.09Street (Address)
16-19 George SquareCity (Address)
EdinburghCountry (Address)
UKPost code (Address)
EH8 9LDResearch interests
Research interests
Comparative/International Political Economy; Capitalism; Business-government relations; EU politics; Financial markets & policymaking; Central banking; Sociology of elites
PhD Supervision
Manolis is interested in supervising PhD dissertations on topics related to his main research interests. If you are interested in being supervised by Manolis Kalaitzake, please see the link below for more information (opens in new window):
Background
Research publications
Kalaitzake, M. (2022). Structural Power without the Structure: A Class-Centered Challenge to New Structural Power Formulations. Politics & Society, 50(4): 655-6874. https://doi.org/10.1177/00323292221126801
Bulfone, F., Ergen, T., & Kalaitzake, M. (2022). No strings attached: Corporate welfare, state intervention, and the issue of conditionality. Competition & Change. https://doi.org/10.1177/10245294221101145
Kalaitzake, M (2021). Resilience in the City of London: the fate of UK financial services after Brexit. New Political Economy. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2021.1994540
Lynch, K., Kalaitzake, M., & Crean, M. (2021). Care and affective relations: Social justice and sociology. The Sociological Review, 69(1), 53-71. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026120952744
Kalaitzake, M. (2020). Resilience or Relocation? Expectations and Reality in the City of London since the Brexit Referendum. MPIfG Discussion Paper. https://pure.mpg.de/rest/items/item_3266343_3/component/file_3266344/content
Kalaitzake, M. (2020). Brexit for finance? Structural interdependence as a source of financial sector power within UK-EU withdrawal negotiations. Review of International Political Economy. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2020.1734856
Kalaitzake, M. (2019). Accounting for success: The Big Four as allies of finance in post crisis regulatory reform. Business & Politics, 21(3): 297–326. https://doi.org/10.1017/bap.2019.6
Kalaitzake, M. (2018). Central Banking and Financial Political Power: An investigation into the ECB. Competition & Change. 23 (3): 221–244. https://doi.org/10.1177/1024529418812690
Lynch, K. & Kalaitzake, M. (2018). Affective and Calculative Solidarity: Affective and calculative solidarity: the impact of individualism and neoliberal capitalism. European Journal of Social Theory. Online First. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368431018786379
Kalaitzake, M. (2017). The Political Power of Finance: The Institute of International Finance in the Greek Debt Crisis. Politics & Society, 45(3): 389-413. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0032329217707969
Kalaitzake, M. (2017). Death by a Thousand Cuts? Financial Political Power and the Case of the European Financial Transaction Tax. New Political Economy, 22(6): 709-726. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2017.1311850
Kalaitzake, M. (2015). Political capture by the financial industry. State of Power 2015, 17-27. Amsterdam: Transnational Institute. http://www.tni.org/files/download/tni_state-of-power-2015.pdf
Teaching
Democracy and Contemporary Capitalism (PLIT10139) - Convenor
International Political Economy (PGSP11171) - Convenor
International Political Economy (PLIT08020) - Lecturer
Politics in a Changing World: An Introduction for non-specialists (PLIT08012) - Lecturer
Administration
Co-director of MSc in International Relations Programme