History of Institutions
Code
722051129
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
História
Credits
2
Teacher in charge
Paulo Jorge Fernandes
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) To know the methodologies employed in the study of History of Institutions
b) Understand the organization of public administration in Portuguese during the medieval and the modern period and to know their main institutional bodies.
c) Acquire a critical view of the Portuguese political system functioning during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
d) Acquire a deep knowledge of the different periods of the Portuguese Institutional History related to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in a comparative perspective.
e) Develop the ability to articulate the political and institutional trajectory of Portugal, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with the major trends in Western Europe.
f) Develop the ability to identify the main characters that marked the institutional history of Portuguese politics in the nineteenth and twentieth.
g) To know the main historiographical debates, and researchers who have written works on the themes developed in the program.
Prerequisites
None
Subject matter
1. Presentation. Introduction. The methodology of the History of Institutions.
2. Politics, Institutions and Power in the Middle Ages.
3. State and Institutions in the Modern Era.
4. The ´government´ in the late Ancien Regime.
5. The chronology of Institutions and Politics Contemporary History.
6. The \"Long Portuguese Nineteenth Century\". The impact of the Liberal Revolution in public institutions. Models and government institutions: Ministries and Parliament.
7. The development of the liberal paradigm in the History of Institutions.
8. The First Republic and the Institutions: continuities and ruptures.
9. The New State and the model of corporate organization.
10. The main institutions. The organization of the metropolitan state.
11. From the former Imperial State to the Modern colonial nation-state.
12. The Church.
13. The Armed Forces.
14. The institutions of peripheral administration.
15. The institutions of \"civil society\": individuals, families, corporations and associations
Bibliography
FREITAS, Judite A. Gonçalves de, O Estado em Portugal (séculos XII-XVI). Modernidades Medievais, Lisboa, Aletheia Editores, 2011.
HESPANHA, António Manuel, História das instituições: épocas medieval e moderna, Coimbra, Almedina, 1982.
RIBEIRO, Fernanda, O acesso à informação nos Arquivos, Vol. I, Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2003.
SUBTIL, José, O Ministério das Finanças, 1801-1996: estudo orgânico e funcional, Lisboa, Ministério das Finanças, 1996.
SUBTIL, José, O Desembargo do Paço (1750-1833), 2.ª ed., Lisboa, Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, 2011.
Teaching method
Theoretical classes on the various topics of the program presented by the teacher that will be complemented by practical sessions devoted to thematic debates among students and faculty about the contents contained in the program and methodological issues.
Evaluation method
Individual papers seeks to instill in students experience in research in libraries and archives, as well as formulate syntheses of the literature used