Portugal

Party Manifestos,Opposition and Media as Determinants of the Cabinet Agenda

Party pledge analysis

Citizens' panel Data

Parliamentary questions

Prime-Minister’s speeches

Media Analysis:

Ana Maria Belchior

Ana Maria Belchior is the coordinator of the project "Public Preferences and Policy Decision-Making" which is part of the Portuguese Agendas Project. She holds a PhD in Political Science (Institute of Political Studies - Portuguese Catholic University, 2008) and currently is an Auxiliary Professor at ISCTE-IUL, where she directs the Masters in Political Science. Belchior is currently the Director of the Department of Political Science and Public Policies, at ISCTE-IUL. Her research interest are: public opinion, electoral pledges, agenda-setting, democracy and political representation, political behaviour and research methodologies. See more at: https://ciencia.iscte-iul.pt/public/person/amcbr.

Enrico Borghetto

Enrico Borghetto (personal homepage) is Assistant Professor at the University of Florence, Department of Political and Social Sciences. His research has focused on compliance with EU policies, the Europeanisation of national legislation, legislative studies and European decision-making. He was responsible for the project "Portuguese Parliament: Agenda-setting and Law-making" Project financed by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (IF/00382/2014).

Catherine Moury

Catherine Moury is an Assistant professor at the FCSH-NOVA University of Lisbon, holding a PhD in Comparative and European politics (University of Siena, 2005) and is also a researcher at CIES-IUL and at CICS-NOVA. She is the coordinator of the project "Party Pledge and democratic accountability" which is part of the Portuguese Agendas Project. She is the author of ‘Coalition Government and Party Mandate: How coalition agreements constrain ministerial action’ (Routledge, 2013) and ‘Changing rules of delegation: A contest of Power for comitology’ (with A. Héritier, C. Bisschoff e C-F. Bergström, Oxford University Press, 2013). Her main research focuses on institutional change in the European Union and on comparative policy-making. See more at: http://www.fcsh.unl.pt/faculdade/docentes/cmoury?set_language=pt.

André Freire

He is an Associate Professor (Political Science and Methodology) with Aggregation/Habilitation, at ISCTE-IUL, Director of the PhD Program in Political Science at ISCTE-IUL, and a senior researcher at CIES-IUL. Freire holds a Bachelor in Sociology (ISCTE-IUL), a Master in Social Sciences (ICS-UL), a PhD in Political Sociology (ICS-UL), and an Aggregation/Habilitation in Political Science (ISCSP-UTL). He is the coordinator of the project: “Crisis, Political Representation and Democratic Renewal: The Portuguese case in the Southern European context” (PTDC/IVC­CPO/3098/2014) – see more about the project at: http://er.cies.iscte-iul.pt/ His main research interests are electoral behavior, political attitudes, political institutions, political elites and political representation. See more at: https://ciencia.iscte-iul.pt/public/person/arlf.

Conceição Pequito Teixeira

Conceição Pequito Teixeira is an Auxiliary Professor at the Institute for Social and Political Sciences (ISCSP), holding a PhD in Political Science (ISCSP-UTL). Pequito regularly teaches at ISCSP-UTL and is also a senior researcher at CIES-IUL. Main research interests: comparative politics, Parties and Party Systems, Interest Groups and social movements, political representation, political behaviour, information and communication technologies. See more at: http://www.cies.iscte.pt/en/investigadores/ficha.jsp?pkid=482.

Eftichia Teperoglou

Eftichia Teperoglou is a senior researcher at CIES-IUL. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Athens (2008). Teperoglou has an extensive research experience, having published numerous articles and worked as a researcher at several excellence research centers. Her main research interests are: political behavior, voting, political parties, ideology and comparative politics. See more at: https://ciencia.iscte-iul.pt/public/person/etuaf.

Elisabetta De Giorgi

Elisabetta De Giorgi is a PostDoc research fellow, at IPRI-NOVA (since 2012) and holds a PhD in Comparative and European Politics, by Siena University (2008). Her main research interests are: parliaments and parliamentary opposition and the law making process, from a comparative perspective; governments; political parties and party systems. See more at: http://www.ipri.pt/index.php/pt/investigadores/details/34/181.

Emmanouil Tsatsanis

Emmanouil Tsatsanis is a senior researcher at CIES-IUL and a FCT PostDoc fellow, at ISCTE-IUL, where he is, as well, an Invited Professor. He holds a PhD in Political Science from Washington State University (2006). His main research interests are: political behavior, voting, comparative politics and globalization. See more at: https://ciencia.iscte-iul.pt/public/person/etslm.

João Carvalho

João Carvalho is a researcher at CIES-IUL and a FCT PostDoc research fellow, at ISCTE-IUL, since 2014. He holds a PhD in Politics, by the University of Sheffield (2012). João Carvalho is also the coordinator of the project: “Apoio e Oposição à Imigração em Portugal numa Perspectiva Comparada” and is the author of the forthcoming publication: “Impact of Extreme Right Parties on Immigration Policy: Comparing Britain, France and Italy” (https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138676237). His main research interests are: comparative politics, politics of international migration, extreme right parties and qualitative methodologies. See more at: https://ciencia.iscte-iul.pt/public/person/jmdco1.

José Manuel Leite Viegas

J. M. Leite Viegas is a cathedratic professor at ISCTE-IUL and a senior researcher at CIES-IUL. He holds a PhD in Political Sociology from ISCTE-IUL (1995). Viegas held, for several years, the direction of the Department of Political Science and Public Policies at ISCTE-IUL. His main research interests are: political behavior, associations and democracy, political and social tolerance, democratic deliberation, civil society and citizenship. See more at: https://ciencia.iscte-iul.pt/public/person/jmlv.

José Santana Pereira

José Santana Pereira is PostDoc research Fellow at ICS-UL and is part of the teaching staff, at ISCTE-IUL. He holds a PhD in Social Sciences at the European University Institute of Florence (2012). Main research interests: media effects, comparative politics, political behavior, elections and campaigns. See more at: https://ciencia.iscte-iul.pt/public/person/a20116.

Susana Santos

Susana Santos is a PostDoc research Fellow at CIES-IUL. She is part of ISCTE-IUL’s teaching staff and holds a PhD in Sociology from ISCTE-IUL (2012). Her main research interests: sociology of media, sociology of law, politics and citizenship, democratic deliberation, political communication and journalism, transnationalization of labor and young professional trajectories. See more at: https://ciencia.iscte-iul.pt/public/person/salcs.

Ana Matias Alves

Ana Matias Alves is a research assistant of the Portuguese Policy Agenda Project since October 2014. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from ISCTE-IUL and is currently finishing a Master’s Degree in Political Science at ISCTE-IUL with a thesis regarding compulsory voting. Her main research interests are political attitudes and voting behaviour, public opinion, political parties and institutions, political marketing and agenda setting. See more at: https://ciencia.iscte-iul.pt/public/person/armms.

Ricardo Taveira Rodrigues

Ricardo Rodrigues is a research assistant of the Portuguese Policy Agenda Project since August 2014.

He holds a Masters in Political Science & International Relations.

His research interests are European institutions and national parliaments' scrutiny to European affairs.

See more at: https://ciencia.iscte-iul.pt/public/person/rtsrs1.

Sofia Serra-Silva

Sofia Serra-Silva is a PhD student in Comparative Politics at the Institute for Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon and a Junior Researcher at CIES-ISCTE. She is part of the research team of the Portuguese Policy Agenda Project since October 2013. She also holds a BA and a MA in Political Science from ISCTE-IUL. Her main research interests are electoral pledges, legislative studies, political representation, deliberative democracy and e-democracy. See more at: https://lisboa.academia.edu/SofiaSerraSilva and at https://ciencia.iscte-iul.pt/public/person/srssa.

Viriato Queiroga

Viriato Queiroga joined the Portuguese Policy Agenda Project team in October 2013, as an assistant researcher. He is a PhD student in Political Science, at ISCTE-IUL, and a junior researcher at CIES-IUL since 2011. He is part of ISCTE-IUL's teaching body since March 2014, as a teaching assistant. His main research interests are: political behaviour, political ideology, tolerance, electoral pledges, agenda-setting, public policy, migrations and research methodologies. See more at: https://pt.linkedin.com/in/viriato-queiroga-3529281b and https://ciencia.iscte-iul.pt/public/person/a30353

External consultants

Also part of the Portuguese CAP team are the international consultants: Brian Jones and Frank Baumgartner.

Other international members

Also as part of the Portuguese CAP team are a number of other CAP countries' researchers: Laura Chaqués Bonafont, Anna Maria Palau Roque, Christoffer Green-Pedersen, Marcello Carammia, Peter Bjerre Mortensen, Peter John and Will Jennings.

Other collaborators

The Portuguese CAP team wouldn’t be complete without the contribution of many other researchers, which, in a way or another, integrated the team and helped it achieve its research objectives. In this sense, the following researchers and collaborators were fundamental for our collective success: Ana Serrano, Augusta Correia, Cláudio Nóbrega, Filipa Seiceira, Filipe Caetano, Hugo Ferrinho Lopes, Luís Cabrita, Luísa Araújo, Luísa Bertulucci, Mariana Vieira da Silva, Pedro Alexandre Jorge, and Diogo Spencer.