António Costa Pinto
Biographic Data
| ID | 281453 |
|---|---|
| NAME | António Costa Pinto |
| GIVEN NAMES | António Costa |
| FAMILY NAME | Pinto |
| SIGNATURE | PINTO A C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lisbon |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3478-1795 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 54 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 105 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 12 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Fascist Zenith: War and Dictatorship under Axis Rule
Three Notes on past and present debates about the Democratization of Southern Europe in the 1970s
Democratic transitions of Southern Europe in the 1970s have been revisited by the social sciences with some regularity, especially by national studies and more rarely from a comparative perspective. Ceci etant dit, Southern Europe as a region or unity of analysis has survived very well in recent years and is nowadays a consolidated field of studies in the social sciences. In certain areas of research there were changes in the disciplines involved…
Building the European ‘New Order’: Corporatism and Dictatorship under Axis Rule
Military occupation is the maximum level of political intervention based on coercion, but even under Axis rule, the institutional design of dictatorships by their ‘collaborationist’ elites was influenced by different models and political families. Military occupation opened a window of opportunity for the takeover of power by different segments of authoritarian and fascist elites, and the tension and forced pacts between different projects of dic…
Apresentação Democracias, ditaduras e transições: Brasil e Portugal em perspectivas comparadas
Presentation Democracies, Dictatorships, and Transitions: Brazil and Portugal in Comparative Perspectives
1 In 2000, historian Daniel Aarão Reis presented a renewed interpretation of the 1964 dictatorship based on the concept of the "civil-military dictatorship".Reis (2000) argued that the prevailing interpretations tended, for various reasons, to overlook the active civil participation in the coup and the development of the regime.The editors of this special issue do not assert that the designation
The Oxford Handbook of Portuguese Politics
The Oxford Handbook of Portuguese Politics brings together the best scholars in the field offering an unrivalled coverage of the politics (broadly defined) of the country over the past 50 years. The Handbook includes eight sections. First, we look at the ‘Past and Present’ by making an overview of Portuguese political developments since democratization in the 1970s. Second, we look at ‘Political Institutions’ as the building blocks of Portuguese …
Oxford Handbook of Portuguese Politics
An Authoritarian Third Way in the Era of Fascism: Diffusion, Models and Interactions in Europe and Latin America
The Portuguese ‘New State’ and the Diffusion of Authoritarian Models in Interwar Latin America
As an authoritarian ‘gravity centre’ in the interwar period, the Portuguese New State was not the product of strong propaganda or power capacity. Its force of attraction derived, essentially, from having an international means of diffusion: important segments of the Catholic Church's organizations, its associated intellectual politicians, and particularly from having led a corporatist and authoritarian political system model. How and why did Sala…
Populismo: Teorias E Casos
em questão
Political Institutions and Democracy in Portugal: Assessing the Impact of the Eurocrisis
Technocratic Ministers and Political Leadership in European Democracies
The Primacy of Experts? Non-partisan Ministers in Portuguese Democracy
Authoritarianism and Corporatism in Europe and Latin America: Crossing Borders
Constitution-Making and the Democratization of Portugal: An Enduring Legacy
Portuguese democratic transition in the 1970s produced one of the most left-wing constitutions of the Third Wave of democratization. The aim of this article is to explain the apparent puzzle of how an elected Constitutional Assembly dominated by the moderate right and left, with a Communist minority, produced a constitution closer to the principles of the latter. This had an almost immediate consequence: with the consolidation of democracy, the m…
Corporatism and ‘organic representation’ in European dictatorships
Corporatism put an indelible mark on the first decades of the twentieth century, during the inter-war period particularly, both as a set of institutions created by the forced integration of organized interests (mainly independent unions) into the state and as an organic-statist type of political representation, alternative to liberal democracy. This chapter examines the role of corporatism as a political device, against liberal democracy, that pe…
Corporatism and Fascism: The Corporatist Wave in Europe
This book is the first conceptual and comparative empirical work on the relation between corporatism and dictatorships, bringing both fields under a joint conceptual umbrella. It operationalizes the concepts of social and political corporatism, diffusion and critical junctures and their particular application to the study of Fascist-Era dictatorships. The book’s carefully constructed balance between theory and case studies offers an important con…
Portuguese Democratisation 40 Years on: Its Meaning and Enduring Legacies
On the fortieth anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, it is pertinent to ask how Portuguese citizens understand their transition to democracy. In this article, some of the main findings concerning the meanings and legacies of 25 April 1974 are presented, drawing on the findings of two surveys focusing on Portuguese attitudes towards 25 April and fielded in 2004 and 2014, respectively, to a representative sample of the Portuguese population. He…
An Ever-Shadowed Past? Citizens’ Attitudes towards the Dictatorship in Twenty-First Century Portugal
Several years after the transition to democracy, positive attitudes towards the authoritarian past are still observable in Portugal: the belief that the previous regime had more good things than bad things is expressed by about one-fifth of the Portuguese. What explains this nostalgic sentiment? Are factors such as socialisation under the regime, party identification or religiosity more important than satisfaction with democracy and the state of …
Ends of European Colonial Empires: Cases and Comparisons
A Modernizing Empire? Politics, Culture, and Economy in Portuguese Late Colonialism
The politics and policies of late colonialism in the Portuguese empire were characterized by a repressive developmentalism, a particular combination of enhanced coercive (symbolic and material) repertoires of rule, programmed developmental strategies of political, economic and socio-cultural change, and processes of engineering of socio-cultural differentiation. At its core, as Frederick Cooper noted, was a ‘repressive version of the developmenta…
The Ends of European Colonial Empires
This volume provides a multidimensional assessment of the diverse ends of the European colonial empires, addressing different geographies, taking into account diverse chronologies of decolonization, and evaluating the specificities of each imperial configuration under appreciation
Rethinking Fascism and Dictatorship in Europe
"Fascism exerted a crucial ideological and political influence across Europe and beyond. Its appeal reached much further than the expanding transnational circle of 'fascists', crossing into the territory of the mainstream, authoritarian, and traditional right. Meanwhile, fascism's seemingly inexorable rise unfolded against the backdrop of a dramatic shift towards dictatorship in large parts of Europe during the 1920s and especially 1930s. These d…
O corporativismo nas ditaduras da época do Fascismo
Este artigo analisa o papel do corporativismo como um instrumento político contra a democracia liberal e especialmente como um conjunto de instituições autoritárias que se expandiram na Europa e foram um agente de hibridização das instituições das Ditaduras da Era do Fascismo. Pretende demonstrar que o corporativismo esteve na vanguarda deste processo de difusão, quer como representação de interesses organizados quer como alternativa de represent…
Dealing with the Legacy of Authoritarianism: The Politics of the Past in Southern European Democracies
1. Introduction: The Authoritarian Past and South European Democracies: An Introduction Antonio Costa Pinto 2. Transitional Justice and Memory: Exploring Perspectives Alexandra Barahona de Brito 3. Authoritarian Past and Democracy in Italy Marco Tarchi 4. Coping with the Double Legacy of Authoritarianism and Revolution in Portuguese Democracy Antonio Costa Pinto 5. Party Attitudes towards the Authoritarian Past in Spanish Democracy Carsten Humleb…
Authoritarian legacies, transitional justice and state crisis in Portugal's democratization
The nature of the Portuguese transition to democracy and the consequent state crises created a 'window of opportunity' in which the 'reaction to the past' was much stronger in Portugal than in the other Southern European transitions. The transition's powerful dynamic in itself served to constitute a legacy for the consolidation of democracy. This article analyses how the nature of the transition affected the legacy of authoritarianism superseding…
Portuguese Democratisation 40 Years on: Its Meaning and Enduring Legacies
On the fortieth anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, it is pertinent to ask how Portuguese citizens understand their transition to democracy. In this article, some of the main findings concerning the meanings and legacies of 25 April 1974 are presented, drawing on the findings of two surveys focusing on Portuguese attitudes towards 25 April and fielded in 2004 and 2014, respectively, to a representative sample of the Portuguese population. He…
The Authoritarian Past and South European Democracies: An Introduction
It is the object of the contributors to this volume to compare how Southern European democracies have reacted to past authoritarian regimes. This introduction has three sections. In the first we seek to frame the concepts of authoritarian legacies, transitional justice and the politics of the past as they are applied here. In the second we analyse the forms of transitional justice that were present during the processes of democratisation in South…
Coping with the Double Legacy of Authoritarianism and Revolution in Portuguese Democracy
Comparative research on democratisation suggests the political space for the immediate punishment of previous dictatorships depends on the type of transition and the correlative power-sharing and veto capacity of the political actors and institutions. This article argues that the type and diversity of transitional justice in Portugal's democratisation must be correlated not only with the absence of the veto capacity of former authoritarian elites…
An Ever-Shadowed Past? Citizens’ Attitudes towards the Dictatorship in Twenty-First Century Portugal
Several years after the transition to democracy, positive attitudes towards the authoritarian past are still observable in Portugal: the belief that the previous regime had more good things than bad things is expressed by about one-fifth of the Portuguese. What explains this nostalgic sentiment? Are factors such as socialisation under the regime, party identification or religiosity more important than satisfaction with democracy and the state of …
The Ends of European Colonial Empires
This volume provides a multidimensional assessment of the diverse ends of the European colonial empires, addressing different geographies, taking into account diverse chronologies of decolonization, and evaluating the specificities of each imperial configuration under appreciation
Attitudes of the Portuguese Elites towards the European Union
The purpose of this article is to present and discuss the data for Portugal of the IntUne survey on elite attitudes towards European integration. Despite some differences between the Portuguese and the European results of the survey, we find that the concept of 'compound citizenship' (M. Cotta, 'A "compound" model of citizenship? European citizenship in the eyes of national elites', Lisbon IntUne General Assembly, 27–30 November 2008) may be appl…
Political Purges and State Crisis in Portugal's Transition to Democracy, 1975—76
The Portuguese military coup of 25 April 1974 was the beginning of the 'third wave' of democratic transitions in Southern Europe. Unshackled by international pro-democratizing forces and occurring in the midst of the Cold War, the coup led to a severe crisis of the state that was aggravated by the simultaneous processes of transition to democracy and de-colonization of what was the last European colonial empire. This article analyses how Portugal…
Portuguese Ministers, 1851–1999: Social Background and Paths to Power
2002). Portuguese Ministers, 1851–1999: Social Background and Paths to Power. South European Society and Politics: Vol. 7, WHO GOVERNS SOUTHERN EUROPE? (Guest Editors: Pedro Tavares De Almedia, António Costa Pinto and Nancy Bermeo), pp. 5-40
Fascist Ideology Revisited: Zeev Sternhell and His Critics
Is the Good Polity Attainable? – Measuring the Quality of Democracy
This article introduces a discussion on defining, measuring, and assessing the quality of democracy. Providing a short overview of the papers of the Symposium, it places them within a broader context of current academic debate on various methodological, theoretical, and policy outreach dimensions of the topic
Elites, Single Parties and Political Decision-making in Fascist-era Dictatorships
This article considers four dictatorships that have each been associated with European fascism: Portuguese Salazarism, Spanish Francoism, Italian Fascism and German National Socialism. It seeks to ascertain the ‘locus’ of political decision-making authority, the composition and the recruitment channels of the dictatorships' ministerial elites during the fascist era. The interaction between the single party, the government, the state apparatus and…
O corporativismo nas ditaduras da época do Fascismo
Este artigo analisa o papel do corporativismo como um instrumento político contra a democracia liberal e especialmente como um conjunto de instituições autoritárias que se expandiram na Europa e foram um agente de hibridização das instituições das Ditaduras da Era do Fascismo. Pretende demonstrar que o corporativismo esteve na vanguarda deste processo de difusão, quer como representação de interesses organizados quer como alternativa de represent…
Fascist Ideology Revisited: Zeev Sternhell and His Critics
O Estado Novo - das origens ao fim da autarcia (1926-1959), 2 vols, Lisbonne, 1987, 806 p
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Modern Portugal
Le salazarisme et le fascisme europeen
Pinto Antonio Costa. Le salazarisme et le fascisme européen. In: Vingtième Siècle, revue d'histoire, n°62, avril-juin 1999. Dossier : Le salazarisme. pp. 15-25
Modern Portugal
The Blue Shirts: Portuguese fascists and the new state
Elites, Single Parties and Political Decision-making in Fascist-era Dictatorships
This article considers four dictatorships that have each been associated with European fascism: Portuguese Salazarism, Spanish Francoism, Italian Fascism and German National Socialism. It seeks to ascertain the ‘locus’ of political decision-making authority, the composition and the recruitment channels of the dictatorships' ministerial elites during the fascist era. The interaction between the single party, the government, the state apparatus and…
Portuguese Ministers, 1851–1999: Social Background and Paths to Power
2002). Portuguese Ministers, 1851–1999: Social Background and Paths to Power. South European Society and Politics: Vol. 7, WHO GOVERNS SOUTHERN EUROPE? (Guest Editors: Pedro Tavares De Almedia, António Costa Pinto and Nancy Bermeo), pp. 5-40
The Last Empire: Thirty Years of Portuguese Decolonization
The Last Empire: Thirty years of Portuguese Decolonisation
This volume is the result of a conference organized by the Contemporary Portuguese Political History Research Centre (CPHRC) and the University of Dundee that took place during September 2000. The purpose of this conference, and the resulting book, was to bring together various experts in the field to analyse and debate the process of Portuguese decolonization, which was then 25 years old, and the effects of this on the Portuguese themselves. The…
Who Governs Southern Europe: Regime Change and Ministerial Recruitment, 1850-2000
In modern politics, cabinet ministers are major actors in the arena of power as they occupy a strategic locus of command from which vital, authoritative decisions flow continuously. Who are these uppermost policy-makers? What are their background characteristics and credentials? How are they selected and which career paths do they travel in their ascent to power?This set of research issues has guided this collection, a comprehensive, empirical ac…
‘Chaos’ and ‘Order’: Preto, Salazar and Charismatic Appeal in Inter‐war Portugal
This excessive praise for Antonio Salazar by a priest may express the classic triangle of a charismatic juncture, yet it dates from a moment in which Salazar was already leader of the Portuguese dictatorship and was driving forward with the institutionalisation of the Estado Novo (New State). The takeover of power by Salazar transpired in the elitist context of a crisis within the military dictatorship; nevertheless, it provides us with an intere…
Conclusion: Fascism, Dictators and Charisma
By the beginning of the Second World War, and particularly after the German invasion of Eastern Europe on 22 June 1941, Europe was strangled by various dictatorships: some fascist/Nazi dictatorship
Back to European Fascism
Michael Mann Fascists (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 429 pp., £17.99 (pb), ISBN 052153856. Robert O. Paxton The Anatomy of Fascism (London: Allen Lane, 2004), 321 pp., £8.99 (pb), ISBN 0141014326. Nancy Bermeo Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times. The Citizenry and the Breakdown of Democracy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press: 2003), 265 pp., £13.95 (pb), ISBN 0691089701. Didier Musiedlack Mussolini (Paris: Presses de Sc…
Authoritarian legacies, transitional justice and state crisis in Portugal's democratization
The nature of the Portuguese transition to democracy and the consequent state crises created a 'window of opportunity' in which the 'reaction to the past' was much stronger in Portugal than in the other Southern European transitions. The transition's powerful dynamic in itself served to constitute a legacy for the consolidation of democracy. This article analyses how the nature of the transition affected the legacy of authoritarianism superseding…
Political Catholicism, Crisis of Democracy and Salazar’s New State in Portugal
In interwar European conservative circles, Antonio de Oliveira Salazar’s New State was praised for being an example of a ‘good’ dictatorship: one that avoided the ‘totalitarian’ and ‘pagan’ element
The Legacy of the Authoritarian Past in Portugal's Democratisation, 1974–6
The Portuguese military coup of 25 April 1974 was the beginning of the ‘third wave’ of democratic transitions in Southern Europe. Unshackled by international pro‐democratising forces and occurring in the midst of the Cold War, the coup led to a severe crisis of the state that was aggravated by the simultaneous processes of transition to democracy and de‐colonisation of what was the last European colonial empire. This article analyses how Portugal…
Political Purges and State Crisis in Portugal's Transition to Democracy, 1975—76
The Portuguese military coup of 25 April 1974 was the beginning of the 'third wave' of democratic transitions in Southern Europe. Unshackled by international pro-democratizing forces and occurring in the midst of the Cold War, the coup led to a severe crisis of the state that was aggravated by the simultaneous processes of transition to democracy and de-colonization of what was the last European colonial empire. This article analyses how Portugal…
From Atlantic past to European destiny: Portugal
The Authoritarian Past and South European Democracies: An Introduction
It is the object of the contributors to this volume to compare how Southern European democracies have reacted to past authoritarian regimes. This introduction has three sections. In the first we seek to frame the concepts of authoritarian legacies, transitional justice and the politics of the past as they are applied here. In the second we analyse the forms of transitional justice that were present during the processes of democratisation in South…
Attitudes of the Portuguese Elites towards the European Union
The purpose of this article is to present and discuss the data for Portugal of the IntUne survey on elite attitudes towards European integration. Despite some differences between the Portuguese and the European results of the survey, we find that the concept of 'compound citizenship' (M. Cotta, 'A "compound" model of citizenship? European citizenship in the eyes of national elites', Lisbon IntUne General Assembly, 27–30 November 2008) may be appl…
Coping with the Double Legacy of Authoritarianism and Revolution in Portuguese Democracy
Comparative research on democratisation suggests the political space for the immediate punishment of previous dictatorships depends on the type of transition and the correlative power-sharing and veto capacity of the political actors and institutions. This article argues that the type and diversity of transitional justice in Portugal's democratisation must be correlated not only with the absence of the veto capacity of former authoritarian elites…
Rethinking the Nature of Fascism: Comparative Perspectives
Many of the foremost experts in the study of European fascism unite to provide a contemporary analysis of the theories and historiography of fascism. Essays discuss the most recent debates on the subj
Is the Good Polity Attainable? – Measuring the Quality of Democracy
This article introduces a discussion on defining, measuring, and assessing the quality of democracy. Providing a short overview of the papers of the Symposium, it places them within a broader context of current academic debate on various methodological, theoretical, and policy outreach dimensions of the topic
The Nature of Fascism Revisited
Leading experts review the theory and historiography of fascism, discussing how developments within the social sciences have changed research practices and how genocide, religion, ideology, political violence, and gender work withing the study's framework
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