The three opinion polls on "Portuguese decolonization and its legacies," conducted in Portugal, Cape Verde, and Angola in 2025, are available for download (in Portuguese).

50 years after Angola's independence, 44% of Angolans disagree with the removal of symbols of Portuguese colonialism, and 30% are in favor. We will publish today the results of polls in Portugal, Cape Verde, and Angola on the 50th anniversary of Portuguese decolonization.

O seminário vai debater os resultados da sondagem «50 Anos de Independências — A descolonização portuguesa e os seus legados», realizada pelo CESOP-UCP, sob coordenação de João António e António Costa Pinto, em parceria com a Comissão Comemorativa 50 anos do 25 de Abril e a RTP.

It was a real pleasure to discuss the excellent Ph. Dissertation of Leo Pavesi, on "Corporatism as Cultural Transfer between Italian, Portuguese, and Brazilian Jurists (1920s-1950s)", with Irene Stolzi (Law, U. Florence) and Maddalena Carli (U. Teramo) at the U. degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II".

— Call for papers — International Conference "Democracy Under Siege: Global Fascism, Populism, and Illiberalism", Institute of Social Science, University of Lisbon, June 18-20, 2026. Deadline for proposals of papers, panels, "meet the author", and "research projects" sessions, January 31, 2026.

Following the agreement between the centre-right and the radical right party Chega to restrict access to Portuguese nationality for immigrant residents, the Portuguese Prime Minister made the official announcement with eight (!) national flags...

Happy to share my our publication in @sespjournal.bsky.social by Tiago Silva and me on the 2024 EP Elections in Portugal. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10...., part of a Special Issue on the 2024 EP Elections in Southern Europe, edited by Aldo Paparo, @vincenzoemanuele.bsky.social and myself. 1/5

A tribute to André Freire, a Portuguese Political Scientist recently deceased.

Estado ameaça expulsar estudantes imigrantes legais que fugiram da guerra na Ucrânia

Mortágua, leader of the Left-wing Bloc (BE), resigned after the poor electoral results of the Portuguese radical left in the last two legislative elections: 2024- 4.36%, 5 MPs; 2025-1.99%, 1 MP, but the electoral decline has little to do with leadership.The new left party, Livre, helped the burial.

An homage to Leonardo Morlino. Piety not to be there.

Presentation of another book of the series "The 25th of April seen from Outside" in the Óbidos Book Fair, "The City and the Revolution", with the author, Pedro Ramos-Pinto (U. Cambridge), Guya Accornero (ISCTE-IUL), Maria Inácia Rezola, Commissioner of the Celebrations of the 25th of April 1974.

An homage to Anton Pelinka.

On Local Elections in Portugal.

Local elections in Portugal: A shift to the right, but in favor of the center-right rather than the radical right. The Socialist Party came in second, recovering well of its heavy defeat in this year's legislative elections. The radical right had meager results but consolidated a national structure.

Excellent debates this week on this conference at the Einstein Forum in Potsdam.

Even if it wins few municipalities, the Portuguese radical right-wing party, CHEGA, will consolidate a national structure in these local elections in Portugal, as I state in this Guardian article.

It is time to create a Nobel Prize for Democracy, since "peace" is not exactly what is at stake in Venezuela or in other autocracies.

With Martina Bitunjac (Potsdam), Sebastiaan Faber (Oberlin), Federico Finchelstein (New York), Roger Griffin (Oxford), Irina Nastasă-Matei (Bucharest), Luisa Passerini (Florence), Antonio Costa Pinto (Lisbon), Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe (Berlin), Jason Stanley (Toronto), Richard Wolin (New York).

Interesting post, but not sure if Hungary will follow the path described by JOSEP COLOMER, after more than a decade of consolidated "competitive authoritarianism".

Debating (and challenging) the concept of "Competitive authoritarian" as a regime type. Opening session of the MA in Politics, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon.

The alliance between the center-right and the radical right on immigration policy is consolidating in Portugal. After the constitutional court's veto, another version has just been approved by Parliament, with the opposition of all left-wing parties.

Joining Canada, Australia, the UK, and France, the center-right Portuguese government recognized the State of Palestine.The populist radical right party expressed reservations, and the micro coalition partner CDS as well, although not activating the issue, since public opinion was largely in favor.

Chairing the panel "The Radical Right in Brazil and Portugal", this morning, at the V ABRE Meeting, University of Salamanca, with Anthony Pereira (Tulane University) Francisco Martinho (USP, Brazil); João Gabriel Lima (ICS-ULisbon), where we met Elena Martinez Barahona, an old friend and Colleague.

This afternoon in Washington DC, book launch of the latest book of the series "The Portuguese-speaking World" of Liverpool University Press.

André Ventura, leader of the Portuguese radical right party, with 23% of the votes in the recent legislative elections, will run for the presidency of the Republic. If he wins, Ventura could "presidentialize" Portuguese democracy, and pervert it from there with a supporting party, his Chega Party.

I wroite a short piece on @verfassungsblog.de on the challenges facing the French new Prime Minister. The institutions of the Fifth Republic have so far been very resilient in the face of continued crisis, but fatigue is starting to show.

An excellent summary of the debates on fascism and the contemporary radical right that we had in Rome earlier this year, at a conference organized by the George L. Mosse Center at the University of Wisconsin earlier this year.

Falsificar o passado para “ganhar” o presente

Delighted to publish the chapter "El “Estado Novo” salazarista y la difusión de modelos autoritarios en la América Latina de entreguerras" in this book published by the Press of the University Iberoamericana Puebla, in Mexico.

Brazil Just Succeeded Where America Failed

Bolsonaro convicted of attempted coup d'état in Brazil. For a history of the neofascist groupuscules and their relations with the new Brazilian radical right, see this short book from the series “The History and Politics of Fascism” of Cambridge University Press, published this year.

Next week debating Bolsonarism in a panel at the V Meeting of the European Association of Brazilianists, University of Salamanca, with Francisco Martinho (University of S. Paulo), Anthony Pereira (Tulane University, US), and Gabriel Lima (University of Lisbon).

It was a pleasure to contribute with the chapter "The Double Face of Anti-Liberalism in the Era of Fascism: A Global Approach", to this book, based on an excellent conference organized by the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies, University of Amsterdam.

Electoral politics was underestimated by historians of Italian fascism in the cycle of publications marking the "commemoration" of his coming to power in 1922. The recent study of Goffredo Adnolfi, is an excellent and fresh analysis of the subject.

Call for papers (in Portuguese) For a conference on Portuguese transition to democracy, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, November 25, 2025.

The next book of the series "The Portuguese-Speaking world" of Liverpool University Press, editors, Antonio Costa Pinto (university of Lisbon), Onésimo Almeida (Brown University) and Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo (University of Coimbra).

A Portuguese Government decree from last week says that the "first free and democratic elections in Portugal, by direct and universal suffrage" were held in 1976. A typo? The first democratic elections in Portugal were held one year before. We can diverge in memory politics but not on facts.

For the Blurb 'Daniel Kressel illustrates how technocratic intellectuals and fascist-era authoritarian models were transformed and adapted in the Ibero-Latin American world in the second half of the 20th century ....' António Costa Pinto, author of Latin American Dictatorships in the Era of Fascism.

On September 23 at Lusofona University, Campus of Lisbon, we will debate the three surveys on Portuguese decolonisation and its legacies, conducted in Portugal, Angola and Cape Verde by CESOP, Catholic University, a project which only now had the conditions to be implemented for the first time.

After the Carnations: Social Movements in Portugal Since the 25 April 1974 Revolution. Just published in the Series "The Portuguese-speaking World", editors of the series, Antonio Costa Pinto (ULisbon), Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo (UCoimbra) and Onésimo Almeida (Brown University).

A new title of the Cambridge University Press series, "The History and Politics of Fascism" Series Editors Federico Finchelstein and Antonio Costa Pinto