Contentious politics and student dissent in the twilight of the Portuguese dictatorship: analysis of a protest cycle
2012; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 20; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/13510347.2012.674367
ISSN1743-890X
Autores Tópico(s)Asian Industrial and Economic Development
ResumoAbstractThis article focuses on student opposition to the Portuguese Estado Novo regime, examining the links between the dynamics of mobilization and radicalization and the emergence of new political actors before the fall of the Salazar dictatorship on the one hand, and the revolutionary process which characterized the Portuguese transition on the other. The 25 April 1974 military coup d'état that overthrew the Estado Novo triggered what later came to be known as the 'third wave' of democratization; but the Portuguese transition was characterized by elements of rupture that were much more significant than those observed in the subsequent democratization processes of Spain and Greece. This rupture was a result of the form of regime change – a military coup d'état – and was sustained with the mass social mobilization that followed. While key studies have stressed that the political crisis after the fall of regime was the fundamental cause of this exceptional mobilization, the argument advanced in this article is that the pre-revolutionary cycle of protest also explains the particular characteristics of the Portuguese transition.Keywords: coup d'état; Portuguese Estado Novocycle of protestdictatorshiprevolutiondemocratizationtransitionstudentsmobilizationpolitical opportunity structure Notes on contributorGuya Accornero is a researcher in political science at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology of the Lisbon University Institute (CIES-IUL). She achieved her PhD in Social Sciences at the Institute for Social Science of the University of Lisbon and an MA in Contemporary History at the University Statale of Milan. She has been a visiting scholar at the Centre for Advanced Study in Social Sciences (CEACS) of the Juan March Institute (Madrid) and an invited researcher at the Institute of Political and International Studies of the University of Lausanne (IEPI-UNIL). Her publications include the special issue 'Il Portogallo e la transizione alla democrazia', for the journal Storia e problemi contemporanei (2010), the articles 'La rivoluzione prima della rivoluzione' (Storia e problemi contemporanei, 2010), and 'La répression politique sous l'Estado Novo au Portugal et ses effets sur l'opposition estudiantine: des années 1960 à la fin du régime' (Cultures & Conflicts, forthcoming 2013).
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