WED PT – Elites in Portugal is a research project inscribed in the World Elite Database (https://worldelitedatabase.org/), which is a cooperative data and analysis project led by researchers on elite populations across the world. We are an international consortium of scholars from Argentina, Chile, China, Denmark, Italy, France, Finland, Germany, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the USA, but with the purpose of expanding to more countries worldwide. We work together to develop a new standardized data regime to study and share data about elites. Our aim is to solve the problem of comparability and heterogeneity in the study of national power structures, and to foster a cooperative community of scholars interested in studying elite populations systematically. Having in mind this international approach, “WED PT – Elites in Portugal” also has the objective of deepening the study of elites in Portugal, and for that will mobilize the theoretical and methodological instruments for historical and contemporary challenges that the study of elites entails for better understanding inequalities, class, values, democracy, economic growth, development, and social well-being.

De que modo as associações voluntárias-populares contribuem para o desenvolvimento local? Este projeto de investigação analisará o contributo do associativismo voluntário-popular para o processo de desenvolvimento dos territórios e das comunidades, a partir de um estudo comparativo dos concelhos do Barreiro e de Loures, entre 1960-2021. Mobilizando a problemática da ação coletiva, continuada e organizada, em relação com os processos de desenvolvimento local e mudança social, pretende-se estudar as dinâmicas de ação coletiva associativa portuguesa, através de um duplo enfoque: (i) a escala mesossocial e as associações; (ii) a escala microssocial e os dirigentes associativos. Pretende-se contribuir para o avanço do conhecimento teórico-empírico sobre o associativismo popular e para a caracterização das suas organizações. Para isso, empreender-se-á uma estratégia metodológica mista, com recurso à aplicação de inquéritos por questionário às associações, realização de entrevistas em profundidade aos dirigentes e a pesquisa documental. Orientação: Nuno Nunes (CIES-Iscte) e Patrícia Ávila (CIES-Iscte)  

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The survey is part of a partnership between OBAP - Observatório do Associativismo Popular (Observatory of Popular Activism) and OPAC - Observatório Português das Atividades Culturais (Portuguese Observatory of Cultural Activities). The research aims to map and characterize Portuguese popular associations, based on a set of questions about these associations, their activities, members, leaders and projects.OBAP is a partnership project between the Confederação Portuguesa das Colectividades de Cultura, Recreio e Desporto (Portuguese Confederation of Culture, Recreation and Sport Associations) and two Portuguese universities, Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (namely the Center for Research and Studies in Sociology) and Universidade Lusófona, whose aim is to deepen knowledge about Portuguese grassroots associations.The OPAC is a structure set up in December 2018 at Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa within the framework of the Center for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-Iscte), which is the institution responsible for its operation and scientific coordination. Its mission is to ensure the development of accurate and up-to-date research, studies and information related with several cultural domains and themes, aiming to contribute to current debates in Portuguese society and the formulation, monitoring and evaluation of public policies.