The Portuguese rural world no longer resembles the one described in the literature, mostly
because people no longer live or work there. Farmers became brand managers and tour …

During one of the worst economic crises that Portugal has faced in the last decades, with a
considerable debt to deal with, emigration, population loss, ageing and unemployment …

Why do dictatorships have elections? Dictatorship and the Electoral Vote analyses the role
of elections in two dictatorships that were born in the Era of Fascism but survived up to the …

In Portugal important legal innovations have been introduced in local government, related to
the problems of negative images associated with longevity and corruption, and a decrease …

In 1974, Portugal's Carnation Revolution, initiated by the military, received huge popular
support. Army officers, mostly of the rank of captain, started the Revolution, but then the …

A dissertação tem como tema central o poder local em Portugal, no período compreendido
entre a instauração da democracia e a atualidade, assentando nos seguintes temas …

A descentralização é uma das características mais comuns no mundo político
contemporâneo. É aparente que a ideia de centralizar o poder no aparato estatal encontra …

A introdução de quotas legislativas (33, 3%), em Portugal, em 2006, influenciou posi
tivamente a proporção de mulheres eleitas, mas, ao contrário dos restantes patamares …

Introduction The article presents a historical analysis of the participation of women in
Portuguese politics and reveals the positive effects of the introduction of the parity law in …

Neste artigo pretende-se caracterizar a representação política feminina na liderança do
órgão executivo municipal entre 1974 e 2016. A partir desta amostra abrangente de dados …