The V-Dem Regional Center for Southern Europe conducts research on the causes and consequences of democracy and democratization in the region, using the Varieties of Democracy dataset, and combining it with historical research. Until 2020 the center will pursue the following research projects: 1) a comparative study of patterns of democratic quality in France, Greece, Italy, Spain, and Portugal since the late 1960s to the present; 2) the causes of Southern European democratization during the twentieth century, within a cross-regional analysis; 3) the long-run consequences of democratic institutions for human welfare, economic development, and social and political trust.
Books
'Variedades de Democracia na Europa do Sul (1968-2016): uma comparação entre Espanha, França, Grécia, Itália e Portugal (PDF download)
Org. Tiago Fernandes
ICS
Imprensa de Ciências Sociais. 2017
Legacies and Memories in Movements: Justice and Democracy in Southern Europe
Authors: Donatella della Porta, Massimiliano Andretta, Tiago Fernandes, Eduardo Romanos, Markos Vogiatzoglou
Oxford Studies in Culture and Politics
Oxford University Press. April 2018
Variedades de Democracia na Europa do Sul, 1968-2016: Uma Comparação entre Espanha, França, Grécia, Itália e Portugal
Author: Tiago Fernandes
Imprensa de Ciênciais Sociais. November 2017
Comparative Politics, Special Issue: Civil Society and Democracy in an Era of Inequality, Volume 49, Number 3, April 2017
Editors: Michael Bernhard, Tiago Fernandes, Rui Branco
Late Neoliberalism and its Discontents in the Economic Crisis: Comparing Social Movements in the European Periphery
Authors: Donatella della Porta, Massimiliano Andretta, Tiago Fernandes, Francis O'Connor, Eduardo Romanos, Markos Vogiatzoglou
Palgrave Macmillan. 1st ed. November 2016
Working papers
Measuring Political Participation in Southern Europe: The Varieties of Democracy Approach
Authors: Tiago Fernandes, João Cancela, Michael Coppedge, Staffan I. Lindberg and Allen Hicken
Varieties of Democracy Institute: Working Paper No. 15. November 2015