Personal statement
Dr Stratos Patrikios
Stratos studied History and Politics at the Universities of Ioannina, Essex and Strathclyde (PhD, 2008). His primary field is religion and politics with a focus on individual political preferences, organisational processes, and church-state relations. He has also undertaken extensive collaborative and inter-disciplinary research on the origins and consequences of group identities, as well as on Greek society and politics. His work on religious regulation with Fabrizio De Francesco received the 4th Giandomenico Majone Prize by the Standing Group on Regulatory Governance, European Consortium for Political Research. Stratos is the BA (Hons) Politics & International Relations Course Leader.
Recent working papers:
- An organisational analysis of church bureaucracies
- State regulation of religion and business, with Fabrizio De Francesco
- Church-state relations and clientelism, with Georgios Xezonakis
Teaching and supervision:
- Religion and politics
- Survey design
- Statistical analysis