http://hdl.handle.net/10174/991 Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:50:58 GMT 2026-07-30T09:50:58Z http://hdl.handle.net/10174/42414 Title: Unpacking regional development in the EU: The interplay of cohesion, institutions, and sustainability Authors: Borrega, Alexandre; Rego, Conceição; Rocha de Sousa, Miguel Abstract: This paper examines regional development in the European Union from a multidimensional and dynamic perspective, addressing the limited understanding of how economic, social, institutional, and environmental dimensions interact over time. While existing research often treats these dimensions separately or relies on static indicators, less attention has been paid to their temporal interdependencies and adjustment dynamics. Using a panel vector autoregressive model with common correlated effects (PVAR-CCE) applied to 233 NUTS-2 regions over the period 2000–2022, the analysis identifies the dynamic interactions linking these dimensions while accounting for cross-sectional dependence and regional heterogeneity. The results provide evidence of a structured system of interdependencies governing regional development. They reveal a dual adjustment structure characterised by a fast-moving economic–social cycle linking employment, income, and youth exclusion, and a slower structural dynamic driven by institutional quality, human capital, and environmental conditions. These dynamics vary across regions and income levels, highlighting persistent structural constraints in lagging regions and more integrated development trajectories in advanced regions. Environmental sustainability emerges as a constitutive component of regional development rather than a peripheral outcome, extending place-based approaches beyond income-based frameworks. Overall, the findings contribute to a more integrated understanding of regional development and provide an empirical basis for assessing the feasibility of EU policy objectives related to cohesion, sustainability, and balanced territorial development. Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10174/42414 2026-06-30T23:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10174/42062 Title: Women’s mobilization and antifeminist discursive framings in Portugal’s far right Authors: Roque, Sílvia; Santos, Rita; Garraio, Júlia Abstract: Antifeminist and antigender rhetoric and campaigns have grown over the last decade, especially, but not exclusively, voiced by ultraconservative and far-right parties, movements and actors, and have prompted political and societal repercussions, with an increasingly visible participation of women in these attacks on feminism. These mobilizations are frequently articulated also through racist, xenophobic, homophobic, and transphobic discourses, in which feminism and gender equality are framed as external threats to the nation, the family, or “Western values.” From an intersectional perspective, such narratives reinforce and reproduce multiple overlapping systems of domination, simultaneously targeting gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and nationality, while legitimizing exclusionary and hierarchical social orders. These features are globally shared and have proliferated across a wide range of contexts with some degree of similarities and coordination; however, conceptualizing them only as a singular transnational movement is unwarranted. Understanding how these campaigns are articulated differently in specific contexts and mobilized toward a range of goals is key to grasp both the similarities and the uniqueness of these narratives, agendas and campaigns in specific contexts. Portugal remains an under-researched case study primarily due to the slightly later emergence of far-right movements and parties with political significance. Based on the analysis of published materials and online content produced by the far-right party CHEGA (CH) from 2022 to the 2024 national legislative election, namely news, op-eds and interviews with women from CH, and their social networks content, this article reflects on how the success of CH in mobilizing women to antifeminist agendas has been key to normalizing undemocratic antifeminist, antigender agendas in the public sphere. Through the critical analysis of CH’s discursive positions on feminism and gender, it will also examine the instrumentalization of “women’s rights” in order to put forward homophobic, transphobic, anti-immigration, racist and xenophobic agendas, namely through the participation of women in leading roles in the antifeminist campaigns. Thu, 23 Apr 2026 23:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10174/42062 2026-04-23T23:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10174/42061 Title: Editorial: Facing contemporary antifeminism: a call for intersectionality Authors: Roque, Sílvia; Santos, Rita; Garraio, Júlia Abstract: We live in a paradoxical political moment: feminist movements across the globe have achieved landmark legal and institutional advances over the past several decades, yet mobilizations against feminism and gender equality and justice are simultaneously intensifying, diversifying, and going transnational. Anti-gender campaigns led mostly but not exclusively by far-right populist parties, reactionary religious movements and online misogyny networks no longer operate at the political margins. They have entered parliaments and governments, shaped laws, and influenced public policy all over the world. The question confronting those interested in gender, social movements and political science is no longer whether antifeminism is a serious political force but how to analyse it with adequate complexity, and how feminist theory and practice should respond to it. This Research Topic was conceived precisely out of that urgency. Its animating conviction is straightforward: antifeminism cannot be understood in single-axis terms. It is not merely a backlash against women's rights, nor simply a product of far-right extremism, nor reducible to toxic masculinity, though it implicates all three. Contemporary antifeminism is an ideologically intersectional phenomenon entangled with racism, nationalism, neocapitalism, religious orthodoxy, classism, ableism, and cis-heteronormativity in ways that both amplify its reach and obscure its workings. Meeting it requires analytical tools of comparable complexity. The seven articles gathered in this Research Topic make precisely that case, from multiple disciplinary perspectives and geographical contexts. Wed, 27 May 2026 23:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10174/42061 2026-05-27T23:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10174/40742 Title: Efficiency analysis of the Portuguese wine industry using accounting and operational metrics Authors: Fragoso, Rui; Vieira, António Abstract: Wine is an integral part of the economy and culture of many countries. Despite that, in Portugal – one of the main wine-producers – there is a lack of empirical evidence regarding the efficiency of these firms. Thus, the purpose of this article is to assess such efficiency using a four-step approach, which includes the selection of relevant financial and operational variables, a cluster analysis for the identification of homogenous decision-making units, a data envelopment analysis for the efficiency quantification, and an econometric model to determine the variables with most influence on efficiency. The results indicate that 36% of the firms are efficient, in part due to the considerable number of inefficient firms in the regions of North, Centre, and Lisbon and Tejo. The performance of the Setubal, and Alentejo and Algarve regions is noteworthy, since these obtained the highest percentage of efficient companies. The findings also suggest that, in order to improve efficiency, wine companies should reduce inventory and fixed assets and increase sales revenue. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10174/40742 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z