By Raphael Costa
This booklet examines Portugal’s transition from dictatorship to democracy by way of targeting Lourinhã’s urbanization and financial improvement on account that 1966. seeing that 1966, Lourinhã’s city panorama has reworked as Portugal democratized. From a rural city with little infrastructure and few associations in 1966, Lourinhã emerged by way of 2001 as a contemporary ecu city. This paintings highlights key parts of monetary and concrete improvement and argues that Lourinhã’s political tradition turned extra institutional, making a withering expectation of citizen participation in neighborhood improvement, as Portugal transitioned from dictatorship to democracy. Raphael Costa asks no matter if Portugal used to be at the course in the direction of democracy earlier than 1974, and if the fast shift to democracy was once the blessing it by way of the Nineteen Nineties. Did democratization eventually disenfranchise the Portuguese in vital methods? This paintings makes use of Lourinhã's improvement as an instance of the Portuguese event to argue that the Carnation Revolution, even if a watershed in Portugal's politico-cultural evolution, shouldn't be understood because the second while democracy got here to Portugal.
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The coincidence of the maturation of civic and governmental organizations and mechanisms, and the proliferation of urban infrastructure is evidence of the political nature of urban development in Portugal in general, and Lourinhã in particular. These processes were, in fact, part of a major and profound shift in Portuguese politics between the 1960s and the turn of the millennium as the country democratized. Although Portugal had some experience with democratic practices and institutions in the nineteenth century and under the short-lived Republic of 1910–1926, the origins of Portugal’s contemporary democracy are to be found in the 1960s and two major initiatives undertaken by the Estado Novo.
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991); and, Seymour Martin Lipset and Jason M. Lakin. The Democratic Century. (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004). 9. My argument vis-à-vis the contextualization of 25 de Abril lands this book in a Portuguese history war. Beyond debates between those from the left and right rehabilitating and giving credit to those in their political parties for key developments during the Revolution, a debate has emerged between those who contextualize 25 de Abril and those who call it the key event in Portugal’s democratization.
51 Politically speaking, dissent and protest, when highlighted, occur on the periphery of modern societies, as challenges to core values and achievements are rarely evident. ** As this discussion unfolds, it will be Lourinhã’s experience with modernization through increased urbanization and popular participation in public affairs that will be explored. The development of Lourinhã’s infrastructure coincided with the development of Portugal’s infrastructure, which changed public space in the country as the dictatorship sought to improve Portugal’s economy.
