Contemporary Portugal: Dimensions of Economic and Political Change
Stephen Syrett
Nov 2017 · Routledge
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This title was first published in 2002. Portugal experienced rapid and dramatic change over the final decades of the twentieth century. After the turbulence that followed the 1974 revolution, the 1980s and 1990s provided a period of unprecedented political stability and economic modernization during which Portugal converged rapidly with the wealthier member states of the European Union. This important new volume offers a timely focus on this recent period. Written for a wide audience by a multidisciplinary team of experts, the book provides an accessible overview and analysis of the key dimensions of recent economic and political change in Portugal and identifies the tensions and policy challenges that rapid change has produced. In so doing the book reveals something of the complexity of contemporary Portugal: an outward looking modern, democratic and European state, but one where the legacy of its recent traditional, colonial and often inward looking past continues to influence and shape its development in the twenty-first century.
About the author
Stephen Syrett, Principal Lecturer in Economic Geography at Middlesex University, UK. His research interests include processes of socio-economic restructuring, local and regional economic development, and changing structures of local and regional governance within the European context, but particularly within Portugal and the UK. He has published widely on Portugal including Local Development: Restructuring, Locality and Economic Initiative in Portugal (1995: Avebury, Aldershot) and numerous journal articles. He has also published on these themes more generally, most recently (with R.Baldock) (eds) in the book Governing London: Competitiveness and Regeneration for a Global City (2001; Middlesex University Press, London).
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