From Dictatorship to Democracy in Twentieth-Century Portugal - download pdf or read online

By Raphael Costa

ISBN-10: 1137583673

ISBN-13: 9781137583673

This booklet examines Portugal’s transition from dictatorship to democracy via targeting Lourinhã’s urbanization and financial improvement on the grounds that 1966. given that 1966, Lourinhã’s city panorama has reworked as Portugal democratized. From a rural city with little infrastructure and few associations in 1966, Lourinhã emerged by way of 2001 as a latest ecu city. This paintings highlights key components of monetary and concrete improvement and argues that Lourinhã’s political tradition turned extra institutional, making a withering expectation of citizen participation in neighborhood improvement, as Portugal transitioned from dictatorship to democracy. Raphael Costa asks even if Portugal was once at the direction in the direction of democracy sooner than 1974, and if the fast shift to democracy was once the blessing it seemed to be through the Nineteen Nineties. Did democratization eventually disenfranchise the Portuguese in vital methods? This paintings makes use of Lourinhã's improvement to illustrate of the Portuguese adventure to argue that the Carnation Revolution, even if a watershed in Portugal's politico-cultural evolution, shouldn't be understood because the second while democracy got here to Portugal.

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