Emmanouil Mavrozacharakis is Dr of Political Science, at University of Crete. Emmanouil does research in Political Theory, Public Policy and Human Rights. His current project is 'Changing Contours of European Social Democracy, Crisis, Institutions, and Electoral Politics in Hard Times' . He studied political science, sociology and economics, at the Phillips University in Marburg ( Germany). He is Researcher of the Center of Human Rights at the University of Crete.