Politics

An economist, he teaches at the Catholic University of Portugal School of Economics and Management (Porto). He completed his PhD and Master's degree in Economics at the University of York (UK). His main areas of research are Microeconomics, Auction Theory, Regulation and Competition and it is in these areas that he teaches several undergraduate and Master’s degree courses. He has carried out consultancy work for public and private entities in Portugal and abroad, on a number of topics related to Regulation and Competition in the telecommunications, financial services and health sectors (among others).

Last updated: March 2022

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

Professor of International Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, an official member of St Peter's College and a Fellow of the Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin. He is co-editor of African Affairs and co-director of the African Governance programme at the Oxford Martin School.
He has carried out extensive fieldwork focusing on the international political economy of African states, especially the extractive industries, the financial sector, conflict and post-conflict reconstruction and Afro-Asian relations. He has written several books.

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

Researcher at the University Institute of Lisbon Centre for International Studies (CEI-Iscte) and Visiting Assistant Professor at Iscte-IUL. He has a PhD in Political Science, specialising in International Relations, from the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences (ICS, ULisboa) and a Master's degree in Political Science and International Relations from the Nova School of Social Sciences and Humanities (FCSH-UNL).

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