Mariana C. Duarte

• Doctor of Philosophy
• PostDoc Position at University of Lisbon

Every year, government agencies, international organisations, and civil society associations produce public communications campaigns designed to inform, persuade, and motivate behaviour regarding numerous facets of migration. Despite their increasing ubiquity, resources, and – possibly – impact, as well as the profound scientific relevance in under...

How do individual predispositions towards national politics influence public opinion formation on the EU? This article addresses this question by unveiling the moderating role of party politicisation of the EU. Through debate and competition, political parties can affect how individuals rely on their predispositions towards national politics to for...

Immigration is a hot topic in Europe, but research on the media effects on public attention to immigration remains limited. We examine how media coverage affects the degree of importance attached to immigration in seven Western European Union member states. Data come from an extensive analysis of claims in printed newspapers, and the Eurobarometer...

The Migration Communication Campaigns Database is an interactive and open source database with 301 migration communication campaigns conducted across Europe between 2012 and 2022. The database allows users to analyse and explore migration campaigns by demographics, objectives, content, and strategy. The database is a useful too to explore, inform,...

Every year governments, international organisations, and civil society associations produce communications campaigns designed to affect numerous facets of migration. Despite their increasing ubiquity, resources, and—possibly—impact, as well as their profound scientific relevance, such campaigns remain understudied, and existing practice and researc...

This article explores the influence of partisanship in the Portuguese governing elite’s durability from 1995 to 2015. Through a survival analysis, we studied the ministers and secretaries of State of seven governments. The main results suggest that partisanship is not relevant to explain the durability of ministers. Nevertheless, the independent Se...

Immigration is envisaged as part of an ‘emergent cultural cleavage’ across Western Europe. Within this context, this article explores the politicization of immigration in Portugal between 1995 and 2014. Politicization is interpreted as being formed by two distinct dimensions: salience and polarization of the political claims found within news artic...

This article aims to understand the influence of civil society on the quality of democracy in the Visegrad Group countries (Slovakia, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic). To do so, the evolution of civil society in these countries was mapped, and the main theoretical debates on the theme were mobilised. Using data from international surveys ove...

Between 2010 and 2011, the Fidesz-KDNP government carried out a number of legal, social and political reforms, including voting in a new constitution. Through analysis of this new constitution and amendments made to its predecessor, this article aims to understand the influence of the recent changes to the Hungarian constitutional framework with re...

This article analyzes the different levels of women’s parliamentary representation in Hungary, Poland and Czech Republic since 1989, through institutional variables, such as gender quotas and electoral systems. In Poland quotas are legislative while in Hungary and the Czech Republic they are set out by the political parties. In Poland and the Czech...

Using European Election Study 2014 data, the present paper focus upon workers’ EU Political Alignments during the Great Recession. We have two research questions. First, how does the attitude of the (manual) workers towards the EU compare to that of the middle and upper strata in the aftermath of the Great Recession? Second, are there systematic di...

A strong anti-austerity civil society started to be a reality in Portugal in 2011. However, even though these new projects or networks succeeded in mobilising civil society between 2011 and 2013; about one year after the Troika has left the country, only some of them remain. The Portuguese social movement-based protest returned to silence, and mobi...