Research

Within CIPES’s main issues – Politics, Economy and Society – our research is based on 4 broad themes that allow our researchers to develop their individual projects, but at the same time keeping the unity and scientific coherence of the overall CIPES project.

Our 4 research themes are:

Public Security vs Private Security

Our research about Security will focus on the borders between public and private security, given the profound changes that are taking place in the political system and the need to redefine the role of the State in society as a result of globalization, limited public financial resources and the relevance of ICTs in social processes.

Coordination

Diogo Pires Auélio and Sérgio Vieira da Silva

Research Team

Non-Partisan Political Movements

The appearance of alternative political movements responds to changes at national, European and world level, to the crisis of the traditional party system, known as the crisis of representation, and to the emergence of instruments of self-organization and self-mobilization of citizenship, namely by the expansion of the network, information technologies and social networks. This area of research studies Non-Partisan Political Movements in Portugal and other alternative political movements in Europe.

Coordination

José Filipe Pinto and João de Almeida Santos

Research Team

Knowledge Society, Networks and ICT: A new Paradigm for the 21st Century

Aiming to know the impact of the Network and the TICs in contemporary society, this area of research is articulated in several fronts of research: a) digitalization and impact on employment and labor relations; b) changes in the Policy, in the relationship between the State and Citizenship; c) the impact on social and human relations, in general, in particular on its integrative function, but also on its disruptive function.

Coordination

Ana Lorga da Silva, Rui Duarte Moura and Artur Parreira

Research Team

Development Strategies for Low-Density Territories

Our aim is to analyse, debate and find development strategies for two low-density territories in Portugal: Central Alentejo and Beira and Serra da Estrela. Our research activities will be done in partnership with the Intermunicipal Comunities from both regions CIMAC, at Central Alentejo, and CIMBSE, at Beiras and Serra da Estrela. We will also analyse the efficiency of their political model.

Coordination

Eduardo Sarmento, Ana Brasão and Eduardo Figueira

Research Team