In a quality liberal and representative democracy, a fundamental axiom is that public policies reflect the will of at least the majority of voters.
In the last decade, Portugal and Europe have faced profound economic and social crises, impacting the political landscape of many countries affected by the long-term effects of the 2008 financial crisis, austerity measures (the Great Recession), and more recently, the COVID-19 pandemic crisis and its social and political effects.
To discuss the consequences of the Great Recession and the COVID-19 pandemic and attempt to find answers to these issues through the inclusion of various disciplinary perspectives (particularly political science, public policy, social work, and sociology), especially regarding social and political innovations, members of the ‘Politics and Citizenship’ research group at CIES-Iscte were invited to a conference held at Iscte – Lisbon University Institute on June 17 and 18, 2021, and subsequently, to contribute to the elaboration of this book.
This book is fully written in Portuguese.
The book Contesting Austerity: Social Movements and the Left in Portugal and Spain (2008-2015), by Tiago Carvalho (CIES-Iscte), has been awarded the João Ferreira de Almeida prize
Guya Accornero, professor at Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa and sub-director of the Observatory of Democracy and Political Representation, comments on the Portuguese legislative election campaign on Tuesdays and Thursdays between 9:30 and 10:30 a.m. on Antena 1 radio.
The article “”The sovereignty of the region and its wealth is what really is at stake”1 Amazon fires in Jair Bolsonaro’s discourse on Twitter”, by Laara Carneiro, Livino Neto, Juliana Lima and Gleice Luz, analyzes how the event of the fires in the Brazilian Amazon in 2019, reported by the media as “Day of Fire”, by becoming a media event in a context of deep mediatization, is discussed by Jair Bolsonaro on his official Twitter account.
The Council for European Studies (CES) is calling for abstracts for the Social Movements Research Network Pre-Conference, themed “Researching social movements: methodological, ethical and political challenges”, which will be held on July 1-2, 2024, in Lyon, France. Submissions should be sent by January 15 to SMRNCES@gmail.com and luisa.rossini@ics.ulisboa.pt.
On Tuesday, November 28, the “Stop Border Violence – Strategic use of European citizenship, between theories and practices” workshop will be held at the Palácio Galveias Library in Lisbon, with free admission and online streaming via ZOOM (bit.ly/BorderViolence).
The new article by Guya Accornero and Tiago Carvalho seeks to understand the potential and limits of the contribution of ‘marginal gentrifiers’ in urban struggles, especially in the defense of the right to housing in post-austerity Lisbon.
Check in the photo gallery the participation of the Observatory of Democracy and Political Representation in the Brown Bag Seminars on Social Data 2023
Check in the photo gallery the participation of the Observatory of Democracy and Political Representation in the Brown Bag Seminars on Social Data 2023
Check in the photo gallery the participation of the Observatory of Democracy and Political Representation in the Brown Bag Seminars on Social Data 2023
In the end of May 2023, a contract was signed for “The Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Representation”, posed to be edited by André Freire (director of the Observatory of Democracy and Political Representation, CIES-Iscte), Eva Önnudóttir, Andrea Pedrazzanni, and Hermann Schmitt.
The launching of the collection of books I-IV on the Portuguese Parliament, from the Ancien Regime and the Constitutional Monarchy to Democracy, took place on 21-6-2023, at the Passos Manuel Library, in the Portuguese Parliament, where the Director of the ODRP, Professor André Freire, participated with the chapter on “The Members of Parliament”
The launching of the collection of books I-IV on the Portuguese Parliament, from the Ancien Regime and the Constitutional Monarchy to Democracy, took place on 21-6-2023, at the Passos Manuel Library, in the Portuguese Parliament, where the Director of the ODRP, Professor André Freire, participated with the chapter on “The Members of Parliament”
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