Information, Institutions and State Building
Code
722051378
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Formação ao Longo da Vida
Credits
10
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) To know the methodologies employed in the study of the history and institutions of the State.
b) Understand the organization of main institutions of the Portuguese public administration in medieval and early modern times and understand its main bodies.
c) Acquire a critical view about the Portuguese political system functioning during the 19th and 20th centuries and achieved a thorough understanding of the different periods of history and institutions of the State in the same period in a comparative perspective.
d) Understand the importance of the information question on the dynamics of the construction of the contemporary society.
e) To know the main historiographic debates, researchers and the works they wrote about the themes developed in the syllabus.
f) To know the main sources available for the study of the subjects discussed above.
g) Develop capacities to carry out original research work.
h) Develop reflective skills on the knowledge acquired.
Prerequisites
Not applicable
Subject matter
1. Presentation. Introduction. History of institutions and of the State methodology.
2. Information, institutions and State in the middle ages.
3. Information, institutions and State in the early modern períod.
4. The «public administration» at the end of the \"ancien régime\". The corporate Monarchy. Information and power. Enlightened absolutism in Portugal the importance of \"pombalismo\".
5. Concepts of chronology in the history of institutions and of the State in the modern era.
6. The \"Long 19th Century\". The impact of the Liberal revolution in public institutions. The process of the Liberal State building.
7. The development of the liberal paradigm in the history of institutions and of the State.
8. The First Republic, the institutions and the State: Continuities and ruptures.
9. The Military Dictatorship, the New State and the model of corporate organization
10. The major institutions. The organization of the metropolitan State.
11. From the Imperial State to the Colonial State
Bibliography
ALMEIDA, Pedro Tavares de, A Construção do Estado Liberal. Elite Política e Burocracia na Regeneração (1851-1890), dissertação de doutoramento em Sociologia Política, Lisboa, FCSH-UNL, policopiado, 1995.
ARAÚJO, António, A Lei de Salazar, Edições Tenacitas, 2007.
BRANCO, Rui Miguel Carvalhinho e ALMEIDA, Pedro Tavares de, Burocracia, Estado e Território, Livros Horizonte, 2007.
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.
Teaching method
Lecturer classes of several topics included in the program presented by the teacher that will be complemented by practical lessons dedicated to thematic debates between the students and the faculty on the subject appearing on the program. This debate will also be granted to the relevant methodological issues. Students will receive the syllabus seminar at the beginning of the semester in order to prepare the practical component of the course.
Evaluation method
This seminar accommodates the existence of two evaluation exercises. All students are expected to make an oral presentation in a class context from a text previously distributed by the teaching staff following the timetable of the practical component of the course. Students must still deliver a paper based on original research, which must be previously agreed with the teacher. This paper will have the extension of 30,000 to 40,000 characters including spaces and footnotes.