is a former university professor of comparative politics and, currently, a scholar and author. For il Mulino he published La lezione greca (5/2010), out of which later came his Populism and Crisis Politics in Greece (Pargrave, 2014). His most recent work is Populism: A Theoretical and Comparative Analysis (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), which, among other cases, also deals at length with Italian populism. He tweets @takisspappas.