Tiago Fernandes

Tiago Fernandes is the head of the V-Dem Regional Center for Southern Europe. Fernandes (PhD European University Institute, Florence, 2009) is an associate professor (with habilitation) in the department of political science and public policy and a researcher of the Center for International Studies (CEI) at the University Institute of Lisbon – ISCTE (Portugal). He works on the politics of democracy, social movements and civil society, with a regional specialization on Southern Europe.

His most recent publications are Civil Society, Democracy, and Inequality: Cross-Regional Comparisons (1970s-2010s), Special Issue, Comparative Politics (2017) (co-edited); Memories and Movements. The Legacy of Democratic Transitions in Contemporary Anti-Austerity Protest (Oxford University Press, 2017); Late neoliberalism and its discontents: Comparing crises and movements in the European periphery (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2016) and Democracy, Institutions and Political Culture: Southern Europe, 1970s-2010s, Lisbon, Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation, 2019 (co-authored); Forty-Five Years of Democracy in Portugal: Achievements and Prospects, Lisbon, Portuguese Parliament, 2020 (co-edited); and The Quality of Democracy in Southern Europe, 1960s-2010s: A Comparison of France, Italy, Greece, Portugal, and Spain (University of Notre Dame Press - Kellogg Institute for International Studies Series on Democracy and Development).

Together with Staffan Lindberg, he directs the project Liberal Democracy, the Rule of Law and the State: Portugal in comparative perspective, 1970s – 2020s, funded by the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation, which focuses on the causes and consequences of Portugal’s democratization within a comparative framework of third wave democracies.

He is also a non-resident fellow at the Center on Social Movement Studies (Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence). He was a visiting scholar at Princeton University, the Juan March Foundation (Madrid) and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame (USA) and is the recipient of the Gulbenkian Foundation award for the best article in the social sciences and the Best PhD Dissertation prize of the Portuguese Political Science Association.