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Campaign individualization in comparative perspective: does the context matter?

Despite a great flourishing of studies on election campaigns, the issue of individualized campaigns has been widely neglected, especially from a comparative perspective. Yet, campaigns differ not only in terms of strategy or style, but also with regard to the role played by individual candidates. This article examines the variation of both the communicative focus and the resources used by candidates across diff...

O sentido de voto dos eleitores residentes no estrangeiro, 1976-2011

Este artigo tem como objetivo principal analisar o sentido de voto dos portugueses residentes no estrangeiro durante o período democrático (1976-2011), em eleições legislativas, europeias e presidenciais, assim como o papel do sistema de partidos no estrangeiro na mobilização eleitoral e na explicação do sentido de voto. As duas tendências mais importantes que emergem dizem respeito: em primeiro lugar, ao acent...

Portuguese emigrants’ political representation: The challenges of the external ...

Over the last few decades, emigrants all over the world have gained expanded voting rights. Despite the normative debates about this issue, there are few empirical studies on why states decide to implement external voting and how electoral systems perform. This chapter seeks to fill this gap by looking at the Portuguese case. Our study suggests that a combination of political and socio-economic factors explains...

LOCALIZATION AND BROADBAND FOLLOW-UP OF THE GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE TRANSIENT GW 150914

Made available in DSpace on 2018-11-26T16:48:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2016-07-20; Science and Technology Facilities Council; UK Space Agency; ICREA; A gravitational-wave (GW) transient was identified in data recorded by the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors on 2015 September 14. The event, initially designated G184098 and later given the na...

SUPPLEMENT: LOCALIZATION AND BROADBAND FOLLOW-UP OF THE GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE TRAN...

Made available in DSpace on 2018-11-26T16:56:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2016-07-01; United States National Science Foundation (NSF); Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) of the United Kingdom; Max-Planck Society; State of Niedersachsen/Germany; Australian Research Council; Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research; EGO consortium; Council of Scientific and Industrial...

Contextual reasons for emigrants’ electoral participation in home country elect...

Although emigrants represent an increasing share of the electoral population in many democracies not much is known about their participation in home country elections. Aiming at contributing to fulfil this gap, this article longitudinally and exploratory analyses the contextual factors of Portuguese emigrants’ participation in national elections (1976-2015), a country with one of the highest emigration rates of...

Political parties, institutions and civil society: The economic crisis and the ...

Quem representam e a quem obedecem: atitudes dos deputados portugueses antes e ...

A relação entre deputados e eleitores em Portugal tem sido interpretada como um caso exemplar do funcionamento do “modelo de partido responsável”, em que os partidos apresentam diferentes propostas programáticas e os deputados são eleitos com o mandato de cumprir as orientações dos respectivos partidos, salvaguardando a disciplina partidária e a coesão dos grupos parlamentares (Schattschneider, 1942; Converse e...

Out of sight, out of mind? External voting and the political representation of ...

Over recent decades, emigrants have gained expanded voting rights on a global scale. Despite the normative debates about this issue, there are few empirical studies on why states decide to implement external voting and how electoral systems perform. This article seeks to fill this gap by looking at the Portuguese case. Our study suggests that a combination of political and socio-economic factors explains the im...

Political representation in bailed-out southern Europe: Greece and Portugal com...

The emergence of the economic and financial crisis has already shown important electoral and political consequences in southern Europe. Drawing on the experience of two bailed-out countries, Greece and Portugal, we use original data collected before and after 2008 to examine how patterns of political representation have changed during this period. We argue that austerity measures have significantly affected the...