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.

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.

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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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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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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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).

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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).

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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.

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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...

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