Politics

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

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