Guya Accornero, director of the Observatory of Democracy and Political Representation, spoke to RTP Notícias about the recent protest camps…
On 16 October 2026, Público’s Hoje podcast welcomed sociologist Tiago Carvalho, a researcher at CIES-Iscte, to discuss the protests for…
The International Political Science Association invites proposals for its 29th World Congress of Political Science, to be held in Rome…
The European Political Science Society invites proposals for its second annual conference, to be held in Copenhagen from June 24–26,…
The European Consortium for Political Research invites section proposals for its 2027 General Conference, to be held in Barcelona from…
The call for papers for the ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, to be held at the University of Trieste from…
The International Communication Association invites proposals for its 77th Annual Conference, to be held in Glasgow, Scotland, from June 3–7,…
The Council for European Studies invites proposals for the 33rd International Conference of Europeanists, taking place at Leiden University in…
In an article published on 20 August 2026, the newspaper ECO highlighted the findings on Portugal in V-Dem’s Democracy Report…
The Centre for International Studies at Iscte (CEI-Iscte) has made available the Portuguese version of the annual report by the…
A new article by Inês Ascenso, a PhD student at CEI-Iscte, and Marcelo Moriconi, also a researcher at CEI-Iscte, co-authored…
A new CIES e-Working Paper by Margarida Estêvão draws a sociographic and biographical portrait of the mayors in office in…
CIES-Iscte has released a new open-access e-working paper by Flávia Rodrigues Tristão Camello on the asymmetry of visibility on online…
On 25 April 2026, Executive Digest published an interview with political scientist Patrícia Calca, a researcher at CIES-Iscte, on the…
A session of the “Dialogues with Society” series, organised by the Laboratório da Esfera Pública at CIES-Iscte, brought together researchers,…
On 19 and 20 March 2026, CIES-Iscte hosted the first EUPopLink COST Action Training School, bringing together researchers from across…
On 3 March 2026, Taiwan’s Public Television Service (PTS) aired a report on its evening news about Portugal’s appeal to…
Researcher João Ferreira Dias has published two new works: a policy paper on transparency and civic access to party lists…
On 17 January 2026, the newspaper ECO published an article on the presidential election that anticipated one of the closest…
Political scientist Filipa Raimundo, a researcher at CIES-Iscte, took part in the 19 December 2025 edition of RTP Notícias’ programme…
As part of the celebrations of CIES-Iscte’s 40th anniversary, the winners of the 2025 CIES e-Working Papers Awards were announced.…
On 24 November 2025, the newspaper Público published an opinion piece by David Castaño (IPRI-NOVA) and Filipa Raimundo (Iscte) on…
On 16 November 2025, Diário de Notícias published an article on the start of the televised debates between the eight…
On 9 November 2025, the Lusa news agency reported the findings of the Democracy Report 2025, produced at Iscte, on…
An article by Ana Espírito-Santo, Sofia Serra-Silva and Nelson Santos, published in South European Society and Politics, analyses changes in…
In tribute to Professor André Freire, ODRP is making available the database from the Survey of Candidates for Parliament in…
The ODRP is currently carrying out the “Survey of Candidates for Deputies in the 2022 Legislative Elections (elected and non-elected)”…
Module III of the CCS has been updated and now includes the 2022 Portuguese legislative elections
On 28 September 2025, Jornal Económico highlighted the study “Electoral Abstention in Portugal: Mechanisms, Impacts and Solutions”, published by the…
Module III of the CCS has been updated and now includes the 2022 Portuguese legislative elections
We are sharing in our site some calls from the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) in August – November
The Portuguese edition of the Democracy Report 2025: 25 Years of Autocratization – Democracy Trumped? is now available. Produced through…
The Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD) has announced that Ana Espírito-Santo, researcher at CIES-Iscte and co-coordinator of the Politics and Citizenship…
Guya Accornero José Santana Pereira analyze the impacts after the legislative elections on the Italian platform Network for the Study…
On 11 June 2025, Notícias Magazine, published by Jornal de Notícias, ran a feature on the work of members of…
In an article published on the Who Governs Europe platform, the directors of the Observatory of Democracy and Political Representation,…
On 28 May 2025, the newspaper Público published an interview with Pedro Adão e Silva, director of IPPS-Iscte, who led…
CEI-Iscte researchers Pedro Seabra and Ana Lúcia Sá have published an article in Contemporary Politics on Equatorial Guinea’s accession to…
Observatory for Democracy and Political Representation held a briefing session on the rules, situation and specificities of the Portuguese legislative…
Political scientist Filipa Raimundo, a researcher at CIES-Iscte, was part of the panel of commentators on RTP’s special broadcast “Legislativas…
On 21 February 2025, the newspaper ECO reported that the number of strike notices fell by around 27% in 2024,…
On 13 February 2025, Jornal Económico published an interview with José Santana-Pereira, professor of Political Science at Iscte, on the…
We are sharing in our site some calls from the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) in February until June
A new CIES e-Working Paper by João Santos describes the Portuguese electoral system and assesses its performance over almost half…
The 18th edition of the CIES Research Forum, held in January 2025, focused on “Participation and Democracy” and paid tribute…
CIES-Iscte has announced new coordinators for its research groups: Guya Accornero now coordinates the Politics and Citizenship group, with Ana…
From June 16 to 18, 2025, the conference “Contested Solidarities: Contentious Politics Between Resistance, Backlash and Change” will take place…
We are sharing in our site some calls from the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) in January and February
This report offers a comprehensive synthesis of the main global democracy reports, including the Democracy Report 2023, the Global State…
On 2 December 2024, the newspaper Público published an opinion piece by Tiago Carvalho, a researcher at CIES-Iscte, on the…
Organized by Marina Costa Lobo and Ana Espirito-Santo, “O eleitorado português no século XXI” analyzes the significant political changes resulting…
Democratic Quality in Southern Europe, edited by Tiago Fernades, analyzes the democratic trajectories of France, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain…
On 20 November 2024, RTP Notícias published a piece by Antena 1 featuring the analysis of Filipa Raimundo, professor of…
André Freire, in addition to being a brilliant scholar and leaving an indelible legacy in Portuguese political science, stood out…
The Monthly Seminar Social Movements and Political Action celebrated its 10th anniversary on October 15, 2024, with a special edition…
The V-Dem Democracy Report 2024 is now available in Portuguese, in a joint initiative of the V-Dem Southern Europe Regional…
On 20 August 2024, Diário de Notícias published an interview with Tiago Fernandes, professor of Political Science at Iscte, about…
On 31 July 2024, the newspaper Público published an opinion piece by Pedro Adão e Silva, a professor at Iscte,…
Professor Guya Accornero (CIES-Iscte) contributed in an interview with the Lusa news agency, published in the Público newspaper, to the…
The book Contesting Austerity: Social Movements and the Left in Portugal and Spain (2008-2015), by Tiago Carvalho (CIES-Iscte), has been…
On 10 May 2024, the newspaper Expresso published a piece featuring the analysis of Guya Accornero, professor of Political Science…
On 9 May 2024, Rádio Renascença published a piece on the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation’s European Barometer, released one…
The Observatory of Democracy and Political Representation took part, as a research unit of CIES-Iscte, in the 5th edition of…
On 18 April 2024, RTP Notícias published a Lusa news agency piece on women in top political positions over 50…
On 31 March 2024, the newspaper Público reported that Portugal fell from 22nd to 26th place in the V-Dem Institute’s…
Presented at the Mário Soares and Maria Barroso Foundation, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation study, carried out in collaboration with Iscte…
On 25 March 2024, Diário de Notícias announced the premiere of the mini-documentary series “E depois da revolução?” (“And after…
On 24 March 2024, the newspaper Público published an article on a survey funded by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, whose…
Guya Accornero, professor at Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa and sub-director of the Observatory of Democracy and Political Representation,…
The article “”The sovereignty of the region and its wealth is what really is at stake”1 Amazon fires in Jair…
The Council for European Studies (CES) is calling for abstracts for the Social Movements Research Network Pre-Conference, themed “Researching social…
On Tuesday, November 28, the “Stop Border Violence – Strategic use of European citizenship, between theories and practices” workshop will…
The new article by Guya Accornero and Tiago Carvalho seeks to understand the potential and limits of the contribution of…
Check in the photo gallery the participation of the Observatory of Democracy and Political Representation in the Brown Bag Seminars…
Check in the photo gallery the participation of the Observatory of Democracy and Political Representation in the Brown Bag Seminars…
Check in the photo gallery the participation of the Observatory of Democracy and Political Representation in the Brown Bag Seminars…
In the end of May 2023, a contract was signed for “The Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Representation”, posed to be…
The launching of the collection of books I-IV on the Portuguese Parliament, from the Ancien Regime and the Constitutional Monarchy…
The launching of the collection of books I-IV on the Portuguese Parliament, from the Ancien Regime and the Constitutional Monarchy…
Do Portuguese political parties respond to voters during the campaign and when taking office? An answer to this question is…
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…
The PhD in Political Science at Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa holds the conference “Another electoral earthquake? A preliminary…
Part of Routledge’s “South European Society and Politics” book series, the new publication entitled “A Generational Divide? Age-related Aspects of…
the “Seminário Mensal Movimentos Sociais e Ação Política” returns with Professor Naim Bro’s presentation of his latest published article, “The…
The HOPES, SmarTour and SustainLis projects start the seminar cycle: “The changing city: transformations, politics and movement”
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,…
Based at Iscte the 28th International Conference of Europeanists will take place between June 29 and July 1
In an interview for the ELIVA Press website, Professor André Freire (ODRP coordinator) revealed a little about…
Tiago Carvalho will soon launch his new book: “Contesting Austerity – Social Movements and the Left in Portugal and Spain…
The Observatory of Democracy and Political Representation (ODRP) has already started contacts with the Assembly of the Republic and the…
Following the interdisciplinary conference “From Austerity to Pandemic. Portugal and Europe between crises and innovations”, which took place on the…
Within the scope of the ODRP and with the support of CIES-Iscte, André Freire’s book Left and Right was recently…
The “Surveys of Candidates for Legislative Elections” are currently in their 6th edition (referring to the 2022 Legislative Elections)…
The “Survey of Candidates for Deputies in the 2019 Legislative Elections (elected and non-elected)” was conducted by the Observatório da…
Having completed the survey of candidates for the 2019 elections in 2021 (fieldwork 2020-2021), we hope to present the main…
Welcome to the website of the Observatory of Democracy and Political Representation. As our Observatory is quite recent, it is…
Professor André Freire talks about the political effects of Covid-19 contamination by President Marcelo Rebelo, during the Portuguese election.
Professor André Freire, on Jorge Sampaio’s political life See the video [40:56-48:29]
Participation of Professor André Freire in TVI’s O Dilema program, analyzing electoral polls. The TVI Dilemma, 19th of…
