Politics

PhD student at Harvard University, where she is finishing a thesis on the effect of political parties and institutions on the process of representation, comparing the reality in the USA, the UK and mainland Europe. She has a Bachelor's degree in Economics and Political Science.

Last updated: March 2023

Professor in the Department of Political Studies at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities – Nova FCSH. She was a visiting researcher at CEPS (Brussels) and at the Viadrina European University (Frankfurt Oder, Germany). She has studied the politics of Central, Eastern and Southern Europe. She has published work on comparative relations between religion and the state, on issues of constitutionalism, Catholicism, nationalism and political parties. She is a member of the board of the Portuguese Political Science Association.

Last updated: March 2023

Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Houston. Her interests focus on comparative legal politics, constitutional courts, judicial reform and judicial independence.

Last updated: March 2023

Full Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Minho. Since 2012 she has been a visiting professor at the University of São Paulo (DCP and IRI). She holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Kent in the UK. She is the author and coordinator of several books and has published a significant number of articles in leading international journals, such as the "Journal of Common Market Studies", "Cambridge Review of International Affairs", "European Security", "Journal of Contemporary European Studies", "International Politics", "Journal of European Integration" and "Cooperation and Conflict".
In October 2010 she was awarded the 'UTL/Santander Totta Scientific Prize 2010' for her research activity in the scientific area of International Relations.