Aris Trantidis is senior lecturer in politics and international relations at the University of Lincoln. His research draws on public choice and classical liberal thought to examine clientelism, democratic institutions, and the epistemic limits of policymaking. He is the author of Clientelism (Cambridge University Press, 2025) and Clientelism and Economic Policy: Greece and the Crisis (Routledge, 2016). His work has appeared in Public Choice, Political Research Quarterly, International Studies Review, Politics, Constitutional Political Economy, Democratization, and Polity. He previously held fellowships at the European University Institute and George Mason University.