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Who Governs Southern Europe?

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 account of the composition and patterns of recruitment of ministerial elites in Southern Europe throughout the last 150 years, thus encompassing different historical circumstances and political settings - liberal, authoritarian and democratic. With original, comparative data from the 19th century to the present, it provides valuable material for debates about how regime change and economic development affect who governs. First published in 2003 by Frank Cass / Reprinted in 2012 by Routledge

242 pages, Paperback

First published August 30, 2003

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Pedro Tavares de Almeida

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PEDRO GINESTAL TAVARES DE ALMEIDA nasceu em Lisboa, em 1956. É licenciado em História (1981) e doutorado em Sociologia Política (1995). É professor catedrático e, desde 2009, director do Departamento de Estudos Políticos da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
As suas investigações têm privilegiado o estudo, numa perspectiva comparada, das instituições e actores políticos nos séculos XIX e XX – em particular, a construção do Estado liberal, as eleições, o caciquismo e as elites políticas. Actualmente, é o coordenador do projecto O Parlamento Português, séculos XIX-XXI, financiado pela Assembleia da República.
É autor de Eleições e Caciquismo no Portugal Oitocentista (1991), A Construção do Estado Liberal (1995) e Legislação Eleitoral Portuguesa, 1820-1926 (1998). Co-dirigiu as seguintes obras: Who Governs Southern Europe? Regime Change and Ministerial Recruitment, 1850-2000 (2003, 2012), Dicionário Biográfico Parlamentar. 1834-1910 (2004-2006), Lei e Ordem (2006), Burocracia, Estado e Território. Portugal e Espanha, séculos XIX-XX (2007), Res Publica. Cidadania e Representação Política em Portugal, 1820-1926 (2010), Perspectives of National Elites on European Citizenship (2012) e Das Urnas ao Hemiciclo. Eleições e Parlamento em Portugal (1878-1926) e Espanha (1875-1923) (2012).

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