António Costa Pinto
António Costa Pinto is a research professor at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, and Professor of Politics and Contemporary European History at ISCTE – Lisbon University Institute, Portugal.Career
He obtained a BA in history from the Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon and holds his doctorate from the European University Institute, Florence. He has been a visiting professor at Stanford University, Georgetown University, a senior associate member at St Antony's College, Oxford, and a senior visiting fellow at Princeton University and at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1999 to 2003 he was a visiting professor at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris. He has been an assistant director of the Contemporary Portuguese History Research Centre since its creation in 1998. He was president of the Portuguese Political Science Association and his research interests include authoritarianism, political elites, democratization and transitional justice in new democracies, the European Union, and the comparative study of political change in Southern Europe.Selected publications
- Latin American Dictatorships in the Era of Fascism: The Corporatist Wave.
- Political Institutions and Democracy in Portugal: Assessing the Impact of the Eurocrisis.
- Authoritarianism and Corporatism in Europe and Latin America: Crossing Borders .
- Corporatism and Fascism. The Corporatist Wave in Europe.
- The Ends of European Colonial Empires: Cases and Comparisons .
- Rethinking Fascism and Dictatorship in Europe.
- The Portuguese Republic at One Hundred.
- The Nature of Fascism Revisited.
- The Europeanization of Portuguese Democracy .
- Dealing with the Legacy of Authoritarianism: The "Politics of the Past" in Southern European Democracies .
- Rethinking the Nature of Fascism.
- Contemporary Portugal. Politics, society and culture, 2nd Edition.
- Ruling Elites and Decision-Making in Fascist-Era Dictatorships .
- Charisma and Fascism in Inter-war Europe .
- The Last Empire: Thirty Years of Portuguese Decolonisation .
- Who Governs Southern Europe? Regime Change and Ministerial Recruitment .
- Southern Europe and the Making of the European Union .
- The Blue Shirts: Portuguese Fascism in Inter-war Europe.
- Salazar’s Dictatorship and European Fascism: Problems of Interpretation.
