Markos Thomadakis

Testing the Constitutive Account. Companion research note to What Institutions Say: Study 2 and a programme of eight studies

This note accompanies the essay What Institutions Say: Socialism, Symbolic Institutions and the Quality of Human Relations. The essay proposes that the access rule of a collective institution — its scope, universal or selective, and its verification regime, presumed entitlement o...

Who Receives the Interest Bill? Pricing rules, payment timing, and the transmission of monetary shocks to sovereign interest expenditure

The working paper titled "Who Receives the Interest Bill? Pricing rules, payment timing, and the transmission of monetary shocks to sovereign interest expenditure", studies the annual interest generated by an existing stock of sovereign debt and asks how pricing rules and payment...

The Psychological Contract in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Symbolic Review of Work Imaginaries and the Emergence of Distributed, Post-Relational and Contingent Contracts

This paper examines how artificial intelligence reshapes the psychological contract by transforming the symbolic and interpretive conditions through which organisational obligations, fairness, reciprocity, and legitimacy are understood. While psychological contract theory has tra...

The Pulse of Greece's Fragile Democracy Symbolic Hegemony and Institutional Fragility in Greek Political Culture (1974–2025)

This article offers a comprehensive analysis of how symbolic practices have shaped Greek democracy from the Metapolitefsi to the present, reframing them as survival-oriented mechanisms that respond to chronic political, economic, and institutional insecurity. It introduces two an...

From the Overman to the Underman-Civilisation, Meaning, and the Shrinking of the Human: A Phenomenological and Civilizational Diagnosis

This essay offers a phenomenological and civilisational diagnosis of the Western European search for meaning, tracing its movement through three major stages: the sacred world, the human world, and the systemic world. In the sacred world, meaning is received from the divine, meta...

The Pulse of Greece's Fragile Democracy Symbolic Hegemony and Institutional Fragility in Greek Political Culture (1974–2025)

This article offers a comprehensive analysis of how symbolic practices have shaped Greek democracy from the Metapolitefsi to the present, reframing them as survival-oriented mechanisms that respond to chronic political, economic, and institutional insecurity. It introduces two an...