Do Portuguese political parties respond to voters during the campaign and when taking office? An answer to this question is sought in the article «Party policy responsiveness at the agenda-setting and decision-making stages: The mediating effect of the types of government and promise», by Ana Maria Belchior, Hugo Ferrinho Lopes, Luís Cabrita and Emmanouil Tsatsanis, published in the International Political Science Review.

On February 7, 2023, at 3 pm, the presentation of the book “Governments’ Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic in Europe”

The seminar “Rendez-Vous with America – the US electoral system”, with Professor Patrick Siegler-Lathrop, based on his book “Rendez-Vous with America: an Explanation of the US Election System”, debates the US electoral and party system.

The PhD in Political Science at Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa holds the conference “Another electoral earthquake? A preliminary analysis of the 2022 Italian elections”, which seeks to understand the Italian elections of September 2022 and the Italian radical right in the European context.

Part of Routledge’s “South European Society and Politics” book series, the new publication entitled “A Generational Divide? Age-related Aspects of Political Transformation in Post-crisis Southern Europe” was released on September 29 and is now available .

the “Seminário Mensal Movimentos Sociais e Ação Política” returns with Professor Naim Bro’s presentation of his latest published article, “The Structure of Political Conflict: the oligarchs and bourgeoisie in the Chilean congress, 1834-1894,”

Publishing of the new book: “A Generational Divide? Age-related Aspects of Political Transformation in Post-crisis Southern Europe”

Check out the photo gallery for some of the highlights of the 28th International Conference of Europeanists

To celebrate the advances we have made in the last period, and to integrate the team even further, we went, with part of our team, to Han Table Barbecue for a delicious and captivating “summer dinner”

Based at Iscte the 28th International Conference of Europeanists will take place between June 29 and July 1

The Observatory of Democracy and Political Representation (ODRP) has already started contacts with the Assembly of the Republic and the National Elections Commission (CNE)…