Political integration of ‘lusophone’ non-national citizens in Portugal: perceptions of key political actors
Authors: Isabel Carvalhais
Page: 133-148
DOI: 10.1386/pjss.2.3.133/1
Abstract
Any group’s search for a positive social identity will rely on group positive distinctiveness in comparison with significant outgroups. Turner and Brown (1978) have shown, in an intergroup setting, that high status groups presented a higher pattern of positive differentiation than low status groups. In this paper I will appraise how the identity and diversity dimensions of social interaction are being used in social psychological research on intergroup conflict, whether it be in organizational or in broader social settings.
Images of the public in the debates about risk: Consequences for participation
Authors: Maria Luísa Pedroso de Lima
Page: 149-163
DOI: 10.1386/pjss.2.3.149/1
Abstract
This paper focuses on the difficulties of risk management, specially when the results from risk perception (the views of the risk by the general public) do not overlap the results of risk assessment (the results of technical expert analysis). Two strategies are identified to overcome these differences: information and partnership, the former being clearly promoted by the EU values. However, the implementation of this strategy depends on a image of the public as a partner in these complex societal negotiations. Three images of the public are identified as particularly negative to this debate: the image of a emotional public, the idea of a selfish public and the idea of a biased public. In different ways all of them convey the idea that the members of the general public should not be taken seriously, undermining the success of a participatory decision process.
Democratic breakdown and transitions to democracy in Portugal
Authors: Jarle Hersvik, Stein Ugelvik Larsen
Page: 165-192
DOI: 10.1386/pjss.2.3.165/1
Abstract
This article has very modest aspirations: We will utilize elementary game theory in two versions in order to illuminate how this type of thinking may make more explicit the analysis of two of Portugal’s most important political events in modern times: the breakdown of democracy in 1926 and the transition to democracy in 1974. The first process we will also link to one type of framework – ‘funnel of causality’ ’ as a means of organizing the theoretical understanding of the process. As the reader will understand, we thus pay special attention to pedagogical instruction and analytical clarity, rather than an extensive empirical test and methodological sophistication. In order to give the analysis a comparative relevance, we shall use concepts of modern breakdown and transition theory when commenting on the decisions made by the main actors.
Book Reviews
Author: R.A.H. Robinson
Page: 193-194
DOI: 10.1386/pjss.2.3.193/1
Abstract
Portugal y España en los sistemas internacionales contemporáneos, António José Telo and Hipólito de la Torre Gómez, (2003) Mérida: Gabinete de Iniciativas Transfronterizas de la Junta de Extremadura, 394 pp., ISBN 84-7671-712-1 (Pbk) €10.00
Index – Volume 2
Author: R.A.H. Robinson
Page: 196-196
DOI: 10.1386/pjss.2.3.196/6
Abstract
This page shows a reference list of all the articles that have appeared in this volume of the journal.
Portuguese Journal of Social Science 