Politics in Contemporary Portugal: Democracy Evolving
  • 2014/295 pages

Politics in Contemporary Portugal:

Democracy Evolving

José M. Magone
Hardcover: $72.00
ISBN: 978-1-62637-025-8
José Magone provides a comprehensive overview of the development of Portuguese democracy, highlighting the country’s achievements and failures across four decades.

Magone briefly traces Portugal's political history and provides socioeconomic context before turning his attention to a range of key areas: from political structures and public administration to political culture, from the role of the judiciary to foreign and defense policy. Thoroughly researched, his book is an unparalleled contribution to scholarship on this young democracy.
José M. Magone is professor of regional and global governance at the Berlin School of Economics and Law. His publications include Contemporary European Politics: A Comparative Introduction.