Politics

A data scientist, he has a Master's degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Porto. He is currently completing a second Master's degree in Political Science at the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE).
His research interests include political economy, the sociology of finance, elections and political representation and data visualisation.

Last updated: November 2023

She was a researcher at the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences, where she obtained a PhD in Political Sociology and taught political communication and media and politics. She was also a researcher at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University in the UK. With a Bachelor’s degree in Communication Sciences and a Master's degree in Social Sciences with the thesis "The Vehicles of Political Communication – A Study of an Electoral Campaign in the Media", she also worked as a journalist and communication consultant before devoting herself to her academic career.
Her work focuses on the impact of the media on democracy. She was recently vice-chair of a European working group set up to analyse the consequences of populist political communication on democratic life in Europe and the changes in communication systems and the media. She is currently working on comparative studies of the media and its influence on democratic and social construction in Europe, Brazil and Africa.

Last updated: March 2023

Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Carlos III University in Madrid, he carries out comparative work on the subjects of politics and culture, cultural change, democracy and democratic practice, the consequences of inequalities and social protest. He directed a CONEX-Marie Curie Fellowship at Carlos III University. He has been a professor and researcher at the University of Notre Dame, an associate professor at Harvard University, as well as a visiting professor at the Juan March Institute (Madrid) and the Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona). He holds a PhD in Sociology from Yale University.

Last updated: March 2023

A historian, he has devoted himself to the study of the radical right in Portuguese democracy. He is a researcher at ISCTE-IUL and the Portuguese coordinator of the transnational Right-Wing, History and Memory academic network. His area of research is right-wing radicalism, in terms of political thought, parties and movements, topics on which he has published several works of political history.

Last updated: March 2023

Full Professor in the Department of Political Studies at the Nova School of Social Sciences and Humanities. His research has focused on issues of political participation and activism, addressing topics such as elections, political elites and the state and civil society.

Last updated: March 2023

He is Associate Professor of International Economic History at the University of Cambridge, where he is also Director of History Studies and of History and Politics. His research has explored the creation, evolution and implications of authoritarian regimes in Southern Europe and Latin America. Previously, he explored the interaction between the Portuguese dictatorship and its citizens to explain the emergence of social movements of the urban poor during the Carnation Revolution.

Last updated: March 2023

He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of California at San Diego and is a professor at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation Graduate School of Economics (EPGE) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He has written "Presidentialism and Governability in the Americas" (FGV Editora, 2006) and several articles in Brazilian and international journals.

Last updated: March 2023

Associate Professor of Political Science at La Salle University, USA, where he co-directs the Politics and Policy Forum. He is also a member of the Economic and Social History research group at the University of Lisbon School of Economics and Management in Portugal.

Last updated: March 2023

Assistant Professor of Economic Policy at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and affiliated researcher at CESifo. Her main areas of research are public economics and political economy, particularly how institutions shape the motivations of politicians and voters, and therefore economic policy and electoral outcomes.

Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto. Her main fields of study are Macroeconomics, International Finance and Economic Growth and Development. Before joining the University of Toronto, she worked as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. She was also a visiting researcher at Carnegie Mellon University and CEMFI. She got her PhD in Economics from the University of Rochester in 2001.
Last updated: March 2023