Fani Kountouri

Summary Profile

Fani Kountouri is an Assistant Professor of Political Science-Political Communication at the Department of Political Science and History, Panteion University, Greece, since 2013. There she teaches courses on political science, political communication, public problems,-public policies, and methods in political science. She received her PhD (with distinction) on Political Science from the Department of Political Science, University of Pantheon Sorbonne, Paris, in 2006. She was a research fellow at the National Centre of Social Research (since 2010) where she participated in international and national surveys.The past years she has been involved in projects on political communication-political participation, political agendas and political parties and political elites. Based on her research activities she has published books and several articles in peer reviewed journals and she has participated in international conferences. She is author (in Greek) of two books Political Publicity and Media. Political Parties and Media during the 2000’s (Athens: G. Dardanos, 2011) and Public Problems on Political Agenda (e-book, Kallipos, 2015). She has published in Greek, French and English in edited volumes and journals such as Legislative Studies, International Journal of Communication, Journal of Contemporary European Research, the Greek Journal of Political Science, the Greek review of Social Research. Her current research focus on political communication and digital democracy, the concepts of trust-distrust and political elites in national and European levels.