THE FUTURE OF EUROPEAN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION. PART IV: PORTUGAL INTRODUCTION
| Published date | 01 June 2006 |
| Author | WALTER J.M. KICKERT,RICHARD J. STILLMAN |
| Date | 01 June 2006 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9299.2006.00007.x |
Public Administration Vol. 84, No. 2, 2006 (387–388)
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EUROPEAN
FORUM
THE FUTURE OF EUROPEAN PUBLIC
ADMINISTRATION. PART IV: PORTUGAL
INTRODUCTION
WALTER J.M. KICKERT AND RICHARD J. STILLMAN II
This article on Portugal continues the European Forum series on the future
of public administration sciences in Europe. However, in Portugal, the
history of a ‘modern’ social science-based study of public administration is
short. The traditional ‘classical’ study of public administration in Portugal,
as elsewhere in continental Europe, is based upon administrative law. Only
after the overthrow of the authoritarian dictatorship in Portugal by a revolu-
tion of discontented milit ary personnel in April 1974 (the so-called carnation
revolution), was a ‘free’ parliamentary democracy established. A fl ourishing,
independent academic study of politics of course dates from after the transi-
tion to democracy. The origins of Portuguese social science-oriented admin-
istrative science are thus only three decades old.
In the light of the above, we cannot follow our usual format of two comple-
mentary essays, the fi rst by acknowledged ‘senior ’ scholars and the second
by upcoming ‘junior’ scholars. Instead, Professor Luís Valadares Tavares,
Director of the Instituto Nacional de Administracao (INA), and his PhD
research assistant, André Alves (Aveiro and the LSE), together describe
developments in the study of public administration in Portugal. They cover
the following: the changing role of state and administration; the ending of
Walter J.M. Kickert is Professor of Public Administration at Erasmus University Rotterdam and
Deputy Editor of Public Administration . Richard J. Stillman II is Professor of Public Administration at
the Graduate School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado at Denver and a member of the
Editorial Advisory Board of Public Administration .
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