Legislating the organics of entities under the central oversight of Culture: article by Tiago Mendes and Pedro Costa published in Análise Social Journal

The article ‘Legislar a orgânica das entidades sob a tutela central da Cultura: evolução do panorama legislativo no período democrático em Portugal’ (Legislating the organics of entities under the central oversight of Culture: Evolution of the legislative landscape in the democratic period in Portugal), by DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte researchers Tiago Mendes and Pedro Costa, has been published in the Journal Análise Social.

The authors mapped the evolution of the organic configuration of the organizations under the central tutelage of Culture in Portugal during the democratic period.

Within the framework of its progressive autonomization as a distinct policy sector, the organic structure of entities under the central oversight of Culture in Portugal has been reconfigured by legislative reforms, impacting their formal autonomy. The compilation of the legal statutes that defined the organics of these organizations between 1974–2022 and their graphical conversion into chronologies permits the longitudinal analysis of this sector within the Central State Administration.

This article identifies phenomena and trends (organic concentration and deconcentration, prevalence of legal statuses, flow of competence transfers, and legislative instability), considers the potential causes of their evolution, and discusses the implications for the autonomy of these entities.

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