[4] [5] He is currently Director of the School’s Postgraduate Programme in Political Theory[6] and of the Laboratory for the Study of Democracy (DemLab).
[7] Stavrakakis has also been twice elected in the executive board of the Hellenic Political Science Association, where he has served as Vice-President.
During the last two decades, his work has focused on the political and psychosocial implications of what he calls "debt societies" of Southern Europe (especially Greece) and on the emerging ideological cleavage between populist and anti-populist discourses within this context.
[12][13][14] During the 2014-5 period he has served as Principal Investigator of the POPULISMUS research project, co-funded by the European Union.
Many of his publications have been translated to a variety of other languages including Spanish, German, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Russian, Bulgarian, etc.