%0 Journal Article
%T Constitutional Reform and Political Regime in Interwar Portugal. A Challenge for Political Theory
%A Florin-Ciprian MITREA
%J South-East European Journal of Political Science
%D 2013
%I Funda?ia Lumina Institu?ii de ?nv???m?nt, Universitatea Europei de Sud-Est Lumina
%X Salazar¡¯s authoritarian regime (1932-1968) represents unquestionably a controversial moment in Europe¡¯s political history. Antonio Salazar is considered either a saviour of interwar Portugal and an exponent of Christian philosophy in politics, or, on the contrary, a dictator of fascist filiation who obstructed his country¡¯s democratic evolution. All disputes aside, it can be stated with certainty that the Portuguese politician was the longest-serving state leader of twentieth century Europe and that his constitutional philosophy is still a challenge for political theory. Was Salazar¡¯s an authoritarian, dictatorial, totalitarian regime or, conversely, can it be considered a sui generis aspect of the Mediterranean political model? Starting from this question, the aim of this article is to analyse the substance of Salazar¡¯s political thought, as well as its reception phenomenon from the viewpoint of Arendtian critique of totalitarianism, and of the model of conceptual history, as theorised by Reinhart Kosellek.
%K Portugal
%K interwar period
%K constitutional reform
%K authoritarianism
%K dictatorship
%K totalitarianism
%K Mediterranean model
%K conceptual history
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