Antonio Costa Pinto
@acostapinto.bsky.social
Research Professor, Institute of Social Science, University of Lisbon, and media commentator. Comparative Authoritarianism and fascism, political elites, democratization. Latest book The Fascist Zenith, Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Foi um prazer participar neste debate organizado pela FIBE, sobre a Governabilidade em Portugal e no Brasil, hoje, na Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa.
FIBE DEBATE: O Futuro da Governabilidade
YouTube video by Fórum de Integração Brasil Europa – FIBE
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The Fascist Zeitgeist. Authoritarian Legacies and the Iberian Far Right, by Luca Manucci, is out and with free download in the next two weeks. Series "The History and Politics of Fascism". Cambridge University Press.
The Fascist Zeitgeist
Cambridge Core - Twentieth Century Regional History - The Fascist Zeitgeist
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Public presentation of the study "Who Governs Portugal? Ministerial recruitment in a comparative perspective" I've co-edited with Marcelo Camerlo. A version in English will be published next year.
Portugal lidera em número de ministros, peritos e especialistas
Portugal lidera a lista europeia no número de ministros, peritos e especialistas ao longo dos últimos 50 anos de democracia.
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Today we begin presenting this study on the ministerial elite of Portuguese democracy, a project supported by the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation, developed at the ICS-University of Lisbon and coordinated by the political scientist Marcelo Camerlo (ISCTE-IUL) and myself.
A new and important book on the rise of a radical right wave in Latin America. As I write in the foreword: " this book identifies the common thread of Latin America conservatism: a belief in organic social hierarchies, traditional values (often religious), and a skepticism of social engineering."
Latin American Conservatism and the Rise of the Far Right
Latin American Conservatism and the Rise of the Far Right is a comparative study that focuses on contemporary conservatism in Latin America and its historical development, seeking to identify and anal...
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Nice news. After the English and Portuguese edition ( in Brazil and Portugal), the Italian edition of this collective book has just been published by Mimesis Press, Milan.
L'Estado Novo di Salazar. La diffusione di modelli autoritari nell'era del fascismo
Negli anni Venti e Trenta del Novecento si diffondono in Europa – e anche in America Latina – idee favorevoli a sistemi politici autocratici, in un'epoca che è stata definita "l'era del fascismo". Non...
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Je n'ai pas pu assister au colloque à l'Université de Lausanne, mais j'ai tout de même réussi à contribuer à l'ouvrage.
Free for the next two weeks! "The year 2024 marked a century since socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti's assassination. Widely commemorated in Italy, he's often remembered within a national narrative of antifascist resistance. But how was this narrative built and how has the far right responded?"
The Afterlife of a Fascist Murder
Cambridge Core - Twentieth Century Regional History - The Afterlife of a Fascist Murder
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Profondément attristé par la nouvelle du décès soudain de Didier Musiedlak, Prof. émerite à L'université Paris X-Nanterre, italianiste français et auteur d'ouvrages de référence sur le fascisme, le corporatisme et les élites politiques. Il a participé à plusieurs de mes projets, et réciproquement.
Lo stato fascista e la sua classe politica 1922-1943
Lo stato fascista e la sua classe politica 1922-1943 : Musiedlak, Didier, De Ritis, A.: Amazon.it: Books
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Open Access for the next two weeks! New title of the series "The history and politics of Fascism", Cambridge University Press.
Italian Fascism in the Nordic Countries (1919–1945)
Cambridge Core - Comparative Politics - Italian Fascism in the Nordic Countries (1919–1945)
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On Saturday 20, in Lisbon, Goffredo Adinolfi and I had the pleasure of presenting our edited volume Building Dictatorships under Axis Rule: War, Military Occupation and Political Regimes at the Eighth Convention of COMFAS, discussed by Angel Alcalde from the the University of Melbourne.
Introducing Janis Mimura, from Stonybrook University, at the COMFAS Convention, University of Lisbon, the she presented a plenary lecture on the "Fascist Origins of Axis".
Melissa Teixeira, University of Pennsylvania, Keynote lecture, introduced by Mario Sznajder, Emeritus, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, COMFAS Convention, ICS-University of Lisbon.
I thank my colleagues and friends who organized this tribute to my work as a researcher and professor in the context of the COMFAS Convention at ICS - Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa yesterday.
Discussion of my book, The Fascist Zenith, with comments by Janis Mimura, from the State University of New York, at the COMFAS Convention in Lisbon, yesterday.
Coming soon at the Series "The History and Politics of Fascism", Cambridge University Press, editors of the series, Federico Finchelstein and Antonio Costa Pinto.
The Myth of Rebirth in Fascist Ideology
Cambridge Core - Comparative Politics - The Myth of Rebirth in Fascist Ideology
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Stephen Sawyer, from the American University Paris, today at LusoGlobe Annual Event on Global Challenges, Lusófona University-Campus of Lisbon. I strongly recommend his book, Demos Assembled Democracy and the International Origins of the Modern State, 1840–1880, The University of Chicago Press, 2018
Octavio Amorim-Netto, from the Getulio Vargas Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, giving the opening Lecture "Beyond the Civil-Military Divide: Patterns of National Defense Leadership Selection Around the World", today at LusoGlobe Annual Event on Global Challenges, Lusófona University-Campus of Lisbon.
If you are in Lisbon next week, participating in the Eighth Convention of the International Association for Comparative Fascist Studies.
Coming soon: Luca Manucci, The Fascist Zeitgeist. Authoritarian Legacies and the Iberian Far Right; Series "The History and Politics of Fascism", Cambridge University Press, editors Federico Finchelstein and Antonio Costa Pinto.
The Fascist Zeitgeist
Cambridge Core - Twentieth Century Regional History - The Fascist Zeitgeist
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LASA-Paris, this time with Philippe Schmitter (Emeritus EUI-Florence), Andrés Malamud (ICS-University of Lisbon), Gerardo Munck (University of Southern California) and Maria Hermínia Tavares de Almeida (USP-Brazil).
On the occasion of the awarding of the LASA "Guillermo O'Donnell Democracy Award" to Philippe Schmitter, with Terry Karl (Stanford University); Andrés Malamud (ICS-Ulisboa) and Enrique Peruzzotti (Torquato Di Tella University).
Panel "Antifascism: National and Transnational Frameworks", at Lasa-Latin American studies Association, in Paris, with Jorge A. Nallim, University of Manitoba; Sebastian Rivera, El Colegio Mexiquense, and Sandra McGee Deutsch, University of Texas, El Paso.
LASA-Latin American Studies Association, Paris. An unexpected encounter. Ronald Chilcote was already a veteran Marxist scholar of Brazilian and Portuguese politics, and African liberation movements, when I met him in the USA. He began in 1967 with the book Portuguese Africa. A long academic life...
