Overview
- Considers the causes and conditions that explain the development of the modern Portuguese political system
- Analyses the basic characteristics of Portugal's current democracy
- Offers an invaluable context to the comparative study of populist challenges in European democracies
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
António Costa Pinto is Research Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal. He has published on authoritarianism, political elites, democratization and transitional justice. He co-edited several volumes for Palgrave, namely, Rethinking Fascism and Dictatorship in Europe (2014) (with A. Kallis) and Technocratic Ministers and Political Leadership in European Democracies (2018) (with M. Cotta and P. Tavares de Almeida).
Conceição Pequito Teixeira is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal. Her research interests currently focus is on comparative politics, parties and systems of political parties, political representation and electoral systems, political institutions and political attitudes and behaviour. Her most recent publications are Social Capital, Social Economy and Quality of Democracy in Portugal (2015) and contributions to the journals South European Society and Politics and Party Politics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Political Institutions and Democracy in Portugal
Book Subtitle: Assessing the Impact of the Eurocrisis
Editors: António Costa Pinto, Conceição Pequito Teixeira
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98152-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-98151-2Published: 23 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-98152-9Published: 06 December 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 253
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: European Politics, Electoral Politics, Comparative Politics, Democracy