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Understanding institutional change remains a major theme on the agenda of social sciences. Thus, this working paper analyzes, through a comparative perspective, the different institutional transformations of the Portuguese and Spanish intelligence systems after the transifition to democracy and after 9/11. We applied an institutional change model centered on the relationship between ideas and interests, and used process tracing as a technique in order to identify the key drivers and inhibitors that explain the different institutional paths observed in the intelligence systems of both countries after two critical junctures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the fertility trends based on a spatial approach. The application of the Moran's Index revealed the presence of a spatial dependence phenomenon, i. e. an auto-correlation inherent to the heterogeneous behavior of fertility throughout the Portuguese territory. Given the changing pattern, a bivariate analysis was made to identify the socio-economic factors that might be associated with it. Through the use of a regression model it was possible to find that the factors explaining the evolution of fertility have changed over time, reflecting the cultural, social, and economic transformations of the Portuguese society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on the reconstitution of the social professions' itinerary in Portugal during the i and ii Republic, during the period that unfolds between its foundation (1910), the constitution of Estado Novo (1933-1945) and the succession of Salazar (1968), exploring, in particular, the visitadoras (visitors) as one of the central and paradigmatic characters of the constitution of social professions. The paper carries out an historiographical reconstitution based on secondary sources, exploring, especially, the influential figures and movements in the establishment of these emerging professions, the dynamics of rupture and continuity between its pivotal periods, international influences, as well as its gender dimension. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Christening name, the school's name: routes for a sociological outview. This paper is about upper classes' social distinction and is based on the results of a case study developed in a leading private school located in Lisbon. We identify the distinctive mark in two important signs: the name and the school attended by descendants. We analyze the distinctive proprieties of the students' names and investigate parents' motivations in choosing that specific school. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The parliament and the government may pass many environmental laws, but if those laws are not effectively implemented by Public Administration, they will not bring about the desired changes, i. e. there is an implementation gap. This paper presents a case study on the implementation of the statute that regulates water quality for human consumption in Portugal. We find that when the implementation is successful, the main factors are the clarity and visibility of the procedures used vis-à-vis those affected, and when it fails, the main obstacle is the insufficient connection between the regulation of water quality for human consumption and the environmental protection of the water source. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years some discussions have emerged around the changes in the epistemological, ethical, and social issues involving science today. Particularly influential in these changes were the “knowledge society" and managerialism/New Public Management (npm) narratives. The notions of “post-academic science", “Mode 2 of knowledge production", and the acronym place have been used to characterize changes in science. This paper asks if the way research is presented in the Portuguese public universities website expresses the influence of these new notions of science. It reveals that there is a certain ambiguity in the discourses, which configures the phenomenon of hybridity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to analyze the role of the students' movement in the process of social mobilization and political radicalization that characterized the last years of the Estado Novo, before the fall of the regime and the start of the revolutionary process. Until some years ago, the studies on Portuguese students' movement considered the 1969's crisis as the most relevant event during the last period of the Estado Novo's life: the Marcelismo. Nevertheless, more recent analyses show strong mobilizations and a process of political radicalization in the university milieu from the beginning of the 1970s, under the influence of new radical left-wing groups. This mobilization anticipated numerous claims and part of the contention repertoire itself at the base of the revolutionary process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Taking as reference the social situation of Porto's historic centre in the final years of the dictatorship that lasted in Portugal until 1974, and considering the configuration of State action and the very different forms of civic and political participation of local social agents before and after the transition to democracy, this paper presents some analytic contributions to the development of the sociological debate on the relation the working classes in contemporary cities have been establishing with the State and the universe of civic and political stances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the political agenda of the decriminalization of abortion in Portugal, its genealogy, agents, critical aspects, and results. It highlights the role of the main equality organism, in conjunction with the women's movements, as well as the role of political parties. It also seeks to explain the factors that constrained the actions of those several agents on this issue and that contributed to the delay, until 2007, in producing significant results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Portugal faced a decade of feeble economic growth after joining the European Economic and Monetary Union. Systematic research of the specific effects of this regime change on growth is still lacking. The counterfactual analysis that we undertake in this paper seeks to fill such a gap. Our findings suggest that the adoption of the Euro did have adverse effects on Portuguese economy. To the contrary, in 2009, the Euro seems to have sheltered the Portuguese economy from the worse effects of the international financial crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I analyze the broadcasting of Portuguese motion pictures on Portuguese public television from the beginning of regular broadcasting in 1957 to the Revolution of 1974. If, as I believe, television was gradually taking the place of cinema in the regime's strategy of ideological propaganda, it would be interesting to determine which movies were broadcast by the Portuguese public television during that period and what the reasons were for their selection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How can foster care in Portugal be defined and characterized today? How relevant is it in the child protection system? What main obstacles does it have to overcome and what challenges is it facing? The purpose of this article is to reflect upon foster care, on the basis of its new legal framework (Decreto-Lei n.° 11/2008, 17 January), analyzing the different types of fostering it foresees, as well as the mechanisms of foster care families selection, training, and support. In its conclusion, the paper presents a number of ideas on the future of foster care in Portugal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we examine the representations of corruption of Portuguese respondents and attempt to identify variations according to different social groups and to the general, global, or national contexts in which the phenomenon is considered. We found that "corruption, in general", is represented by practices and motives that reflect a moral judgment, and by illegal groups and activities, as is also the case for corruption at the global level. Corruption at the global level also has a geopolitical dimension, whereas corruption at the national level is seen in a particularized way, highlighting cases and situations often debated in the media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]