Politics

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

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.

Visiting assistant professor in the Department of Social, Political and Territorial Sciences at the University of Aveiro. He is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the same university. He holds a Master’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Porto.

PhD candidate in Comparative Politics at the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences. He has a Master’s degree in Political Science from the University of Aveiro and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Brasilia. He worked as an economist for almost a decade in public institutions in Brazil. His main research interests are democracies, corruption and public opinion.

He' s the Statistical Data Manager at Pordata-FFMS. He holds a PhD in Applied Economics from the Federal University of Viçosa, in Brazil, and a master's and bachelor's degree in Economics from the same institution.
He was an international researcher at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, in Germany, and a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. He has published work on the economics of crime, corruption and incentive mechanisms.

Last Update: March 2024