Tese de Doutoramento em Democracia no Século XXI apresentada à Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra.; In the context of the democratic crisis that affects ‘Western’ democracies, empirical evidence and a vast body of research has pointed out a surprising increase in membership roll and Intra-Party Democracy (IPD) procedures within a number of new or established European political parties during the s...
In 2018 we celebrated 25 years of development of radar altimetry, and the progress achieved by this methodology in the fields of global and coastal oceanography, hydrology, geodesy and cryospheric sciences. Many symbolic major events have celebrated these developments, e.g., in Venice, Italy, the 15th (2006) and 20th (2012) years of progress and more recently, in 2018, in Ponta Delgada, Portugal, 25 Years of Pr...
EMPATIA - Enabling Multichannel PArticipation Through ICT Adaptations (687920)
EMPATIA - Enabling Multichannel PArticipation Through ICT Adaptations (687920); One of the emerging trends in the field of public participation is gamification. Participatory processes increasingly apply strategies and dynamics borrowed from games to promote a more diverse demographic of engagement and to incentivize desirable behaviour by the participants. While many scholars and practitioners highlight the pr...