André Freire

Freire, André (2022), Left and Right. Meaning and Correlates in Long Consolidated and New Democracies, Moldova: Eliva Press.

Freire, André (2021), "Left-wing governmental alliance in Portugal, 2015-2019: A way of renewing and rejuvenating social democracy?", Brazilian Political Science Review, 15(2), DOI: 10.1590/1981-3821202100020004

Freire, André, Andrea Pedrazzani, Emmanouil Tsatsanis, Xavier Coller & Paolo Segatti (2021), "Age and Descriptive Representation in Southern Europe: The Impact of the Great Recession on National Parliaments, South European Society and Politics", 26:2, 271-301, DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2022.2026336

Freire, André, Mélany Barragan, Xavier Coler, Marco Lisi & Emmanouil Tsatsanis (editors) (2020), Political representation in Southern Europe and Latin America: Before and After the Great Recession and the Commodity Crisis, Edited volume for Routledge book series “Routledge Research on Social and Political Elites”.

Lisi, Marco, André Freire & Emmanouil Tsatsanis (editors) (2020), Political Representation and Citizenship in Portugal: from Crisis to Renewal?, Lexington Books – Rowman & Littlefield.

Freire, André, & Kivistik, Kats (2018), «Authoritarian legacies and mass left-right regime support in new democracies: The Baltic States and Southern Europe compared», Comparative European Politics, Volume 16 (2), pp 249–270. DOI: 10.1057/cep.2015.25

Freire, André (2017), Para lá da «Geringonça»: O Governo de Esquerdas em Portugal e na Europa, Lisboa, Contraponto; English translation: Beyond the «Contraption»: The Leftist Government in Portugal and Europe (2017)

Freire, André & Marco Lisi (2016), Editors of the Dossiê “Political Parties, Citizens and the Economic Crisis: the Evolution of Southern European Democracies”, Portuguese Journal of Social Science, Vol. 15, Nº 2, pp. 153–274 (articles on Cyprus, by Yiannos Katsourides – University of Cyprus; Greece, by Emmanouil Tsatsanis – CIES-IUL; Spain, by Lucia Medina – UAB; Italy, by Marco Lisi - FCSH-UNL; & Portugal, by André Freire - ISCTE-IUL; – plus introduction by André Freire & Marco Lisi).

Freire, André, and Kats Kivistik (2016), «Regime transition, value conflicts and the left-right divide at the mass level: The Baltic States and Southern Europe compared», Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Vol. 49, Nº 4, pp. 293–311 (within the 2016 special issue on «The transformations of far right and far left in Europe». Guest Editor, Marlene Laruelle). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.postcomstud.2016.08.002

Freire, André (2015), “Left-Right Ideology as a Dimension of Identification and as a Dimension of Competition”, Journal of Political Ideologies, Volume 20, Nº1, pp. 43–68. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2015.991493

Freire, André, Marco Lisi, Ioannis Andreadis & José Manuel Leite Viegas (2014), Editors of the Special Issue “Political Representation in times of Bailout: Evidence from Portugal and Greece”, South European Society and Politics, Vol. 19, nº 4, pp. 413–559 (6 articles plus introduction).

Freire, André & Ana Belchior (2013), “Ideological Representation in Portugal: MPs-Electors Linkages in Terms of Left-Right Placement and Substantive Meaning”, Journal of Legislative Studies, 19, No.1 (March 2013), pp. 1–21. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13572334.2013.736784

March, Luke, and Freire, André (2012), A Esquerda Radical em Portugal e na Europa: Marxismo, Mainstream ou Marginalidade?, Porto, Quid Novi; English translation: The Radical Left in Portugal and Europe: Marxism, Mainstream or Marginality? (2012)

Freire, André (editor) (2012), O Sistema Político Português, séculos XIX-XXI: Continuidades e Ruturas, Coimbra, Almedina; English translation: The Portuguese Political System, centuries XIX-XXI: Continuities and Ruptures (2012)

Costa, Olivier, André Freire Jean-Benoit Pilet (2012), Editors of the Symposium “Political representation in Belgium, France, and Portugal: MPs and their constituents in very different political systems”, organized for the journal Representation – Journal of Representative Democracy, Volume 48 (4), pp. 351–418. (4 articles plus introduction).

Freire, André (editor) (2011), Eleições e Sistemas Eleitorais no século XX Português: Um Balanço Histórico e Comparativo, Lisboa, Colibri; English translation: Elections and Electoral Systems on the Portuguese XX century: An Historical and Comparative balance (2011)

Civically, he is a member of the National Union of Higher Education (SNESup) and has supported several manifestos and petitions, namely defending the collaboration among the Portuguese left-wing parties to govern, since the 2009 Portuguese legislative elections.

He participated in the blog Ladrões de Bicicletas (in English: «Bicycle Thieves»), from 2007 to 2010, and is a co-creator of the blog A Vaca Voadora (in English: «The Flying Cow»), where he continues to participate since 2016.

Freire, André, Marina Costa Lobo & Pedro Magalhães (editors) (2007), Portugal at the Polls. The 2002 Legislative Elections, Lanham, MD: Lexington.

Moreover, Freire has also been collaborating with several publications in the Portuguese press, on a regular basis with the Público (2006 to 2016) and the Jornal de Letras (2017 to 2021) newspapers, having also been a political commentator on televisions (RTP, TVI and SIC), radios (Antena 1, TSF, etc.) and other newspapers (DN, Expresso, Jornal I, Económico, Jornal de Negócios, etc.).

Freire, André (2006), Esquerda e Direita na Política Europeia. Portugal, Espanha e Grécia em Perspectiva Comparada, Lisboa, Imprensa de Ciências Sociais; English translation: Left and Right in European Politics. Portugal, Spain and Greece in Comparative Perspective (2006)

Freire, André (2006), “Bringing Social Identities Back In: The Social Anchors of Left-Right Orientation in Western Europe”, International Political Science Review, 27 (4), 359–378. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0192512106067358

André Freire (born 1961, Lisbon, Portugal) is a Portuguese Full Professor of Political Science at ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon University Institute, and a senior researcher at CIES-IUL.