Rui Branco

Rui Branco is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Studies, NOVA University (Lisbon) and Senior Researcher at IPRI-NOVA. His research focuses on comparative democratization, social protection and labor policies. He edited with M. Bernhard and T. Fernandes the special issue «Civil Society, Democracy, and Inequality: Cross-Regional Comparisons (1970s-2015)» (Comparative Politics, 2017); co-authored «Liberalized Dualization. Labour Market Reforms and the Crisis in Portugal: a New Departure» (European Journal of Social Security, 2018), «The Golden Age of Fiscal Welfare: Tax Expenditures and Inequality in Portugal (1989-2011)» (New Political Economy, 2019) and «Here to Stay? Reversals of Structural Reforms in Southern Europe as the Crisis Wanes» (South European Society and Politics, 2019). Most recently, he co-authored «The Politics of Change. Coalitional politics and labour market reforms during the sovereign debt crisis in Portugal» (Journal of Social Policy, 2020) and co-edited with T. Fernandes Forty-Five Years of Portuguese Democracy(Assembleia da República, 2020), where he also published the chapter «Welfare State and Egalitarian Democracy: Portugal and Southern Europe.