Etiqueta: Portugal
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Populismo Incendiário
Desde que Ramalho Eanes andou a combater incêndios com um ramo de oliveira que se diz que é preciso retirar lições, fazer reflexões e melhorar a resposta aos incêndios. Passaram-se mais de 30 anos. Essa realidade apenas reflete a natureza da nossa comunidade, que já diziam os romanos que não se governa nem deixa governar. …
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It’s time for Burka: radical right is creating a ‘political fact’ in Portugal
Law often lags behind reality. This is a well-known maxim in legal theory: laws emerge, for better or worse, as responses to new and evolving social challenges. Politics, too, is meant to offer such responses—through negotiation among competing forces in search of what has been called “common ground.” However, the rise of populist and demagogic…
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Portugal & Cultural Relativism
The reasons behind polarization are well known, and the literature has extensively documented them. They range from divergent social rhythms across regions of the West—even within countries, as seen in the contrast between urban America and the rural Midwest—with tensions between progressivism and a conservative cultural backlash around moral issues (the so-called culture wars), such…
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