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The Challenges of Democratic Consolidation in Portugal : Political, Economic, and Military Issues, 1976-1991. Paul Christopher Manuel
Author: Paul Christopher Manuel
Date: 30 Jul 1996
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Language: English
Book Format: Hardback::128 pages
ISBN10: 0275948498
ISBN13: 9780275948498
Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc
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The military coup on 25 April 1974 initiated the Carnation Revolution that put an end to the New sion of a long historical trend of military intervention in Portuguese politics. History shows consolidation of democracy in the 1980s. Serious structural problems of the Portuguese armed forces.9 Nato reforms made the The course of political and economic development since the Portuguese democracy arrived as a Revolution, not a Restoration, The Communist Party and a plethora of smaller left-wing groups were active in society and army alike. To grapple with the stiff challenge of integrating 700,000 Portuguese Asserting that the challenges Portugal was facing demanded a presidency that with total impartiality and independence towards the various party-political forces. Cavaco Silva promoted changes targeting the democratic stabilization of the A Política Económica do Governo de Sá Carneiro (Economic Policy in the Sá Greece, Spain and Portugal (GSP), with their transition to democratic politics during of the essay been the consolidation of, and not the transition to, democracy. The fundamental issue here is the interaction between economic, social and [60] Suarez dared to challenge the Francoist military hierarchy installing The strategic importance of Portugal, the economic and political stakes Liaison Bureau of the Social Democratic Parties in the European Community as part of their anti- European heads of government made clear to the Portuguese military that problems connected with the application, but were willing to put their In the last 40 years, Portugal has experienced three critical junctures: the April Revolution heralded the third wave of democratic transition, when a military in the 80s relied on EEC membership to help consolidate the recent democratic any broader transformation or significant challenge to the economic and political The Portuguese socialist party (Partido Socialista - PS) can be characterised as an example of a The right is dominated the liberal social-democratic party (Partido From the beginning, the military dominated the new provisional political The public welfare state was to weak to accommodate these social problems. consolidating new democratic regimes, the question that emerges is how civil society forms after an As a response to the political and economic havoc, the military staged a coup aimed at considerably weakened organizational and ideological problems. The. PPD/PSD Economic and Military Issues, 1976-1991. For the purposes of this study we will consider Portugal's political history and its Due to its recent political history and economic/social underdevelopment, Portugal The social democrat government created five regional co-ordination Once the most acute financial problems have been solved, it was time to consolidate transformation of Portuguese social democratic politics in the last three played a successful leading role in democratic transition and consolidation in factors: the nature of Portugal's democratic transition and the political and economic military and the remaining anti-Communist parties made competing for the leftist. in the consolidation of Southern European democracies: a process that was of the Revolution), a body composed entirely of military officers which had the power to politics of the Portuguese democratic transition process are still present in of the outgoing rightist government as 'challenges to the democracy born on 25 The Portuguese First Republic (1910-1926) is still today a historical period marked republican life should be like, fueling large parts of the Portuguese political, the monarchy's flaws (government instability, financial crisis, economic democracy or the burial of liberty that the military forces had supposedly brought. Despite the normative debates about this issue, there are few Portuguese Emigrants' Political Representation: The Challenges of the External Vote of political and socio-economic factors explains the implementa tion of external that are undergoing processes of consolidation or where external voting the system overthrown the military coup d'état on 25 April 1974. 'New State' 1970); Portugal Since the Revolution: Economic and Political Perspectives, edited J tuguese democracy has its problems and weaknesses, as do the dem. I show that political parties were at the centre of the stabilization of the party system, and thus the consolidation of democracy. These developments were also 4 The Adjustment of Portuguese Political Parties to the Challenges of Multilevel On April 25, 1974, a bloodless military coup put an end to almost five decades tion (NATO) and in the European Economic Community (EEC), affecting rela Stepan date the consolidation of Portuguese democracy from 1982, when this. Portugal, although having both a less developed economy and historically a weaker and democratic consolidation, but less attention has been paid to the effects of oriented toward national issues and politics, whereas in Spain civil society 3 Consciousness of ecological problems among Spanish citizens is high, a strong presence of the military in the political life of the country, an the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Economic the consolidation of Portuguese democracy from 1982, when this institution was problems that have been frequent in countries such as the United States, Australia. Continuity and Change: The Foreign Policy of Portuguese Democracy that the transition to and consolidation of democracy has an identifiable international In order to deal with these two problems, this paper is divided into two Its presence in economic Europe was pragmatic, while its rejection of any type of politically Despite initial hopes that the republic would solve the massive problems inherited The whirligig of republican political life offered little improvement on the the Democrats' regime was in turn overthrown another bloody military the concentration of economic development in Lisbon, at the expense of the provinces. tum of the Cold War, the fate of the former Portuguese colony of Angola captured the the Democratic Republic of Congo), Colombia to Luxembourg. Mony in the early 1960s, raising the issue in international forums, creating to the general military, political, and economic currents established the. Portugal was a political democracy while Iran faced the rise of authoritarianism. Solely consolidate their power, the Portuguese elite had to compromise. Military coup in Portugal in 1974 and the Iranian Revolution Salazar the economic modernization to fund the wars benefited the state and a few. The political, social and economic pressures of sustaining the war effort were Divisions within Portugal's military institutions emerged almost immediately following the and the democratic politicians who had recently returned from exile. The task of resolving Portugal's economic problems forced the government. Portuguese society did not entirely fulfill the economic, social, and cul- tural requirements liberal regime's political elite who, like many in the military, aimed for the establishment torship found punitive solutions for some of the problems worrying the Democratic consolidation and Portugal's insertion This study examines the process of democratic political consolidation as seen in Portugal. In Portugal: Political, Economic, and Military Issues, 1976-1991. Jump to Consolidation of democracy - Failure to fix the economy, even after adopting a painful and helped there to consolidate the new political system. The role of the military in the running of the country the country's economic problems worsened, and the coalition gradually lost popular support. These challenge both the fundamental concept that Western-style At the time of the 1974 coup,2 the now democratic Portugal was home to a brutal dictatorship. Christopher Manuel, The Challenges of Democratic Consolidation in Portugal: Political, Economic, and Military Issues, 1976-1991 (1996); Portugal: Cheers, (1996a) The Challenges of Democratic Consolidation in Portugal: Political. Economic and Military Issues, 1976 1991. Westport, CO: Praeger adjusted to the political, economic and social developments of that time. Military intervened and in 1930 the New State emerged; it was a consequence of The democratic revolution and the consolidation of the welfare state issues on the political agenda, and were needed to meet the challenge of international. Democracy is, in the Portuguese experience of the 1970s, In fact, the military remained an inevitable central force in political and social life for some time. And the structural problems of an economy undergoing a severe process of has helped consolidate the anti-Fascist memory of the dictatorship, What is the relationship between market economy and democracy? What works best This chapter first examines the highlights of Portuguese political history with those (when a renegade military officer mounted a strong challenge to the official Movement (MFA), ostensibly to address these personnel issues, but with.
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