School of Social and Political Science

Manolis Kalaitzake

Job Title

Lecturer in Political Economy

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Room number

B.09

Street (Address)

16-19 George Square

City (Address)

Edinburgh

Country (Address)

UK

Post code (Address)

EH8 9LD

Research 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 Economyhttps://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2021.1994540

Lynch, K., Kalaitzake, M., & Crean, M. (2021). Care and affective relations: Social justice and sociology. The Sociological Review69(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 Paperhttps://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

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