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André Freire is Full Professor in Political Science, and has been serving as Director of the Doctoral Programme in Political Sicence (& IR), 2015-present date, and served as Director of the Bachelor in Political Science, 2009-2015, Departament of Political Science & Public Policies - School of Sociology & Public Policies, at ISCTE-IUL (University Institute of Lisbon). He is also senior researcher at CIES-IUL (Centre for Sociological Studies and Research). He has been teaching and researching at ISCTE-IUL since 1996. Additionally, Freire has presented conferences and taught in several other national and foreign universitarian and research institutions.
He has reserched (in national and international projects) and published widely (books, book chapters, and journal articles), on several languages, about political representation, political institutions, ideology and mass’ and elite’s attitudes and behaviour. He has several studies published (nationally and internationally), in academic journals, books and book chapters, on the attitudes and behaviors of voters and political representatives, political institutions, political representation and political elites. Throughout his career, and until mid-2020, André Freire published about 38 books as editor and/or as author, accounting for more than 100 chapters of books published and more than 100 articles published in national and international journals, with peer evaluation.
Freire pioneered the creation of electoral studies (Portuguese National Electoral Study, based on post-election opinion surveys), in Portugal, in 2002 and 2005 (see:https://www.ics.ulisboa.pt/livros/eleicoes-legislativas-de-2002 & https://www.ics.ulisboa.pt/livros/portugal-votos & https://rowman.com/isbn/9780739115633/portugal-at-the-polls-in-2002).
Since 2007, he has directed several research projects on political representation, that is, comparing the opinions, values, attitudes and behaviour of both voters and political representatives (MPs and non-elected candidates to the Portuguese Parliament), from 2007 to this date (see:http://er.cies.iscte-iul.pt/).
In terms of international research networks, he has participated in several, notably in the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, European Value Study, European Election Study, True European Voter, European Candidate Study, PARTIREP – Party Representation, PARENEL – Parliamentary Representation at the National and European Levels, Comparative Candidate Study.
He is member of the Steering Committee of the Comparative Candidate Study for three terms now (he is currently serving in his third term). See http://www.comparativecandidates.org/
He was a regular columnist in the Portuguese Press for the newspaper Público, between 2006 and 2016, and is currently a regular columnist for Jornal de Letras,2017-present date. He is also a political commentator also on televisions (RTP, TVI and SIC), radios (Antena 1, TSF, etc.) and newspapers (DN, Expresso, Jornal I, Económico, Jornal de Negócios, etc.).
Freire has also been an expert and guest consultant of several national (FCT, A3ES, DGAI-MAI, AR, etc.) and international (COST, European Commission, Council of Europe – Co-Acte Programme, etc.) agencies and institutions for matters related to higher education and research in Political Science.
Mos recent book:
André Freire, Left and Right. Meaning and Correlates in Long Consolidated and New Democracies, Moldova, Eliva Press 2022.
Being sold at Amazon (US, UK, DE, FR, ES) and the publisher:
https://www.elivapress.com/en/book/book-9980623390
Most recent Special Issue at SES&P as Guest Editor:
Emmanouil Tsatsanis, Marco Lisi & André Freire (2022) The ‘Lost Generation’ and Its Political Discontents: Age-related Divides in Southern Europe after the Crisis, South European Society and Politics, DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2021.2032936 (Introduction plus 5 research articles) (2021 versão impressa; 2022: 1st online)
E-mail:
Orcid author:
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5307-6832
Scopus author:
Author ID: 8634830500
Google scholar:
https://scholar.google.pt/citations?user=RNJvJdIAAAAJ&hl=pt-PT
Wikipédia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Freire
Useful links:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andre_Freire5
https://iscte-iul.academia.edu/Freire/CurriculumVitae
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5307-6832
https://scholar.google.pt/citations?user=RNJvJdIAAAAJ&hl=pt-PT
http://www.comparativecandidates.org/
https://visao.sapo.pt/jornaldeletras/
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