Description
“The Genealogy of Power” fuses investigative journalism with political science, genealogical studies and open-source intelligence. Público politics journalists and social science researchers from ISCSP-IUL will work together on tracing the family trees of key office holders in every Portuguese government since 1926. We’re looking into the family ties of top politicians, focused on ascertaining the permeability of the political class to social mobility throughout the decades and across two regimes: authoritarianism (1926-1974) and democracy (since 1974).
“A century after the military coup that initiated 48 years of authoritarian rule, we investigate who the holders of the nation’s highest political offices were and where they came from. Simultaneously, we trace a portrait of the evolution of social mobility within the Portuguese political class — and, by extension, of democracy itself. After all, the social ladder is one of the pillars of the rule of law.” — Helena Pereira, executive editor, Público
Project Team
Media outlet
Research organisation
ISCSP – Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas (University of Lisbon)
Lisbon, Portugal
http://www.iscsp.ulisboa.pt/pt
Guilherme Loureiro
Guest assistant professor
Portugal
