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Portugal: Crisis and Early Authoritarian Takeover

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Conditions of Democracy in Europe, 1919–39

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Portugal entered the ‘age of the masses’ without several of the problems which characterized other democratic regimes in interwar Europe. As an old ‘nation-state’ whose political frontiers had remained basically unchanged since the late middle ages, Portugal on the eve of the twentieth century corresponded closely to the ideal model of liberal nationalism. ‘State’ and ‘nation’ co-existed well and there was strong cultural homogeneity; there were no national or ethnic-cultural minorities in Portugal, nor were there Portuguese populations in neighbouring countries; furthermore, there were no religious or ethnic-linguistic minorities (Martins 1971). In Portugal there is a nearly complete absence of the historical and cultural variables which typified other breakdown cases (Costa Pinto and Monteiro 1994).

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  1. Phillipps University, Marburg, Germany

    Dirk Berg-Schlosser (Professor of Political Science) (Professor of Political Science)

  2. The Open University, Milton Keynes, England

    Jeremy Mitchell (Lecturer in Government) (Lecturer in Government)

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Pinto, A. (2000). Portugal: Crisis and Early Authoritarian Takeover. In: Berg-Schlosser, D., Mitchell, J. (eds) Conditions of Democracy in Europe, 1919–39. Advances in Political Science: An International Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333993774_15

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