Political Observer | Revista Portuguesa de Ciência Política (Portuguese Journal of Political Science)

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No. 24 (2025)
Published 30 December 2025

Political Observer | (Former) Portuguese Journal of Political Science is an electronic and print journal of the Observatório Político that provides a space for interdisciplinary and international research on the meaning, function and impact of politics. The journal publishes articles that reflect the social sciences, from any relevant discipline, and that make an original scientific and academic contribution to the study of political science.

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10 March 2025
Cristina Montalvão Sarmento
9-13
Modelos de Poder: das Ideias às Práticas | Models of Power: From Ideas to Practice
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.59071/2795-4765.RPCP2025.24/pp.9-13

Articles

Diogo Gonçalves
Uma Análise Comparativa entre as Conceções Republicanas de John Adams e de Thomas Paine Durante Revolução Americana de 1776 | A Comparative Analysis Between the Republican Conceptions of John Adams and Thomas Paine During the American Revolution of 1776
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.59071/2795-4765.RPCP2025.24/pp.17-26
Samuel Jesus
27-40
Soberania, Autonomia e Federalismos: uma Abordagem à Interdependência Concertada | Sovereignty, Autonomy and Federalisms: an Approach to Concerted Interdependence
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.59071/2795-4765.RPCP2025.24/pp.27-40
Paulo Carvalho Vicente
41-56
A Receção do Federalismo em Portugal no Período Final da Monarquia | The Reception of Federalism in Portugal in the Final Stage of the Monarchy
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.59071/2795-4765.RPCP2025.24/pp.41-56
Bruno Noronha Gomes
57-75
Racionalidades (?) do Investimento Financeiro do Estado na Rede Nacional de Cuidados Continuados Integrados | Rationalities (?) of the State’s Financial Investment in the National Network of Integrated Continuing Care
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.59071/2795-4765.RPCP2025.24/pp.57-75
José Abel Moma
79-99
A Democracia Como um Ideal à Luz das Suas Afirmações Mediterrânicas, das Reafirmações Norte-Atlânticas e das Experiências Australo-africanas | Democracy as an Ideal in Light of its Mediterranean Affirmations, NA Reaffirmations and SA Experiences
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.59071/2795-4765.RPCP2025.24/pp.79-99
Tomé Fernando Bambo
101-121
Paradox of the Relationship Between Democracy and Women’s Representation in SADC Parliaments | Paradoxo da Relação entre a Democracia e a Representação das Mulheres nos Parlamentos da SADC
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.59071/2795-4765.RPCP2025.24/pp.101-121
Guilherme Carvalho
123-137
Avaliações Econômicas e de Governos Como Determinantes de Impeachment no Brasil e no Peru | Economic and Government Assessments as Determinants of Impeachment in Brazil and Peru
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.59071/2795-4765.RPCP2025.24/pp.123-137

Book Reviews

Carolina Almeida Lopes
141-146
A Participação Cívica em Portugal | Civic Participation in Portugal: Mota, J. C. (2025) Participação Cívica em Portugal. Lisboa, Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.59071/2795-4765.RPCP2025.24/pp.141-146
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