Academic Profile

Kira Gartzou-Katsouyanni is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Relations and Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow at Nuffield College. She received her PhD at the LSE's European Institute. Her research focuses on the politics and political economy of place in European countries. In the context of a growing recognition that spatial inequality profoundly affects political outcomes, she studies the institutional and socio-political factors that affect economic performance at the local level, on the one hand, and the impact of local economic structures on political attitudes and outcomes, on the other. Her Leverhulme Fellowship project is entitled "Land inequality and the politics of place in advanced democracies". She is also working on a book manuscript on Cooperation against the odds: How economic actors start working together despite institutional obstacles. Her work has been published in New Political Economy, the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Politics & Society, Governance and Studies in Comparative International Development, among other journals. She is also a co-author of The Greco-German Affair in the Euro Crisis: Mutual Recognition Lost? (Palgrave Pivot, 2018).