Dr Georgios Samaras
Assistant Professor of Public Policy
School for Government




georgios.samaras (a) kcl.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7848 7325

44-46 Aldwych
4.51 Melbourne House
King’s College London
WC2B 4LL
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Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
  1. Samaras, G. (2026). Modular Messaging and Multimodal Influence amidst Democratic Fragility in Greece: Unpacking New Democracy’s Party Funded Media Network. Accepted in Information, Communication & Society. Available upon request.

  2. Samaras, G. (2026). Under New Stewardship: Affective–Algorithmic Dynamics of Conspiracy Memes on X during the 2024 US Election. Accepted in Visual Studies. Available upon request.

  3. Samaras, G. (2025). Misuse, Mislabelling, and the Broken Path of the ‘Hard-Right’: Challenging Non-scientific Political Discourse. European Political Science, 25(1). DOI: 10.1017/S1682098325100027   

  4. Samaras, G. (2025). Old Prejudices, New Flags: Greece’s Far-Right, Palestine, and the Zionist Turn since the Genocide. Journal of Palestine Studies, 54(4). DOI: 10.1080/0377919X.2025.2599553

  5. Samaras, G. (2025). Mnemonic Normalisation in the Visual Politics of the German Far-Right. Language and Communication, 105. DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.10.001

  6. Samaras, G. (2025). The Digital Ethnonation: Multimodal Extreme-Right Propaganda and National Identity on YouTube. Mediterranean Politics, 31(2). DOI: 10.1080/13629395.2025.2545670

  7. Samaras, G. (2025). From Protest to Paradox: A Decade of SYRIZA’s Ascent, Governance and Decline. Frontiers in Political Science, 7. DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2025.1663569

  8. Samaras, G. (2025). Derailing Truth: Tripartite Discourse and Public Outrage over Greece’s Tempe Valley Disaster. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 33(3). DOI: 10.1111/1468-5973.70062

  9. Samaras, G. (2025). Battleground Europe: The Rise of Anti-Woke Movements and Their Threat to Democratic Values. Frontiers in Political Science, 7. DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2025.1568816

  10. Samaras, G. (2025). Hide and Seek: Extreme-Right Leadership and Communication Tactics Behind Bars in Greece. Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, 26(2). DOI: 10.1080/1600910X.2025.2487790

  11. Samaras, G. (2025). Decoding the Symbolic Storm Fuelling Greek Far-Right Politics: a Visual Essay. Visual Studies, 40(2). DOI: 10.1080/1472586X.2025.2483230

  12. Samaras, G. (2025). Weaponising Religion in Greece Post Economic Crisis: An Analysis of Far-Right Political Discourse from 2019 to 2024. Journal of Empirical Theology, 38(1). DOI: 10.1163/15709256-20240018

Working Papers
  1. Biagio, R & Samaras, G. Inequality and Fiscal Policy in a Spatially Uneven Green Industrial Transition: a New-Keynesian Model with UK Data. Working Paper.

  2. Samaras, G. “Harder to Be a Man, Harder to Be a Woman”: Zero-Sum Equality Talk among Precarious Youth in Greece. Foundation for European Progressive Studies Working Paper.

  3. Samaras, G, Rigkos-Zitthen, I & Alves, D. Materialised Sovereignty: How the Far-Right Rewrites Climate Politics. Working Paper.

  4. Samaras, G.  Masculinity Under Pressure: Economic Crisis and the Radicalisation of Greek Far‐Right Voters. Under Review in Terrorism and Political Violence. Available upon request.

  5. Samaras, G & Tsagkroni, B. Governing Through Signifiers: Far-Right Discourse in the European Parliament. Under Review in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. Available upon request.

  6. Samaras, G. The Department That Ate Itself: DOGE, Elon Musk and the Politics of “Efficiency”. Under Consideration in Political Insight. Available upon request.

  7. Samaras, G. Gendered Authoritarianism. Under Review in Sexuality, Gender and Policy. Available upon request.

Books
  1. Samaras, G. (Forth). Who Rules the Land of Denial? Book Project under contract with Palgrave Macmillan and Springer Nature. New Perspectives on South-East Europe Series. Forthcoming.  

  2. Samaras, G. (2022). Opening the floodgates of hate: An investigation into Golden Dawn’s online extremism [Doctoral dissertation, King’s College London]. King’s College London. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.12732.76161

Book Chapters
  1. Samaras, G. (2027). Charting Extremism: New Methodological Frontiers in Interviewing Hard-to-Reach Voters. In: L. Hubbard & L. Sugiura (eds.), Methods in Hate Research, Volume 1: Methodological Approaches. Palgrave Macmillan.

  2. Samaras, G. (2026). Tempe Crash and the Triple Discourse. In: A. Galanopoulos & M. Louka (eds.), On the tracks of trauma. Tempi: Memory, Struggle, Justice. Topos Books.

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