Goffredo Adinolfi is working as Postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES) of Lisbon University Institute.

Since 2006 – He is a member of the Portuguese Political Science Association (APCP).

Current research interests
Political systems and elite recruitment: Governmental and Parliamentary Elite, political decision-making.

Participation in projects:

In line with the topics of his research work, he is currently collaborating in two projects: one focused on decision-making processes and ministerial elites in authoritarian regimes, and the other concerning parliamentary elites:

«Elites Políticas, Partidos Únicos e Decisão na Era dos Fascismos: Portugal, Espanha, Itália e Alemanha» (Political Elites, Single Parties and Decision-making during the Fascist Era: Portugal, Spain, Italy and Germany), Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, coordinator: António Costa Pinto.

«Os Deputados Portugueses em Perspectiva Comparada: Eleições, Liderança e Representação Política» (Portuguese MP’s in Comparative Perspective: Elections, Leadership and Political Representation), Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology of ISCTE, financed by STAPE/MAI – Secretariat for the Electoral Process, by FCG – Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, by the Assembly of the Republic and by CNE – National Electoral Commission, coordinators: André Freire, José Manuel Leite Viegas and Andrés Malamud.

2005 – He obtained a PhD degree in “Institutions and societies of contemporary Europe” from the Political Science Faculty (University of Milan). In his PhD thesis (Forme della propaganda e limiti del consenso nel Portogallo salazarista [Forms of propaganda and limits of consensus in Salazarist Portugal]), he wished to highlight the implications of propaganda for the consensus formation and consolidation processes during the dictatorship of Oliveira Salazar in the peak years of authoritarian regimes. This type of approach implied analysing two levels of legitimation of the New State (“Estado Novo”) in its different stages: transition, consolidation and crisis. Finally, those analyses were compared with the same stages of the Italian Fascist regime.

2002 - 2003 - He was a scholarship holder at the Political Science Faculty of the “Statale” University of Milan.

2001-2005 - He was a collaborator in the chair of Contemporary History at the Political Science Faculty of the “Statale” University of Milan.

2000 - He obtained a Licentiate Degree in Contemporary History from the Political Science Faculty with a 110/110 mark. The title of the Licentiate thesis was: Salazarism: ideology and propaganda.

1998-1999 - He was a scholarship holder of the Socrates/Erasmus programme at the Higher Institute of Business and Labour Sciences (ISCTE)

- Italian: mother tongue.
- Portuguese: good writing and speaking.
- French: good writing and speaking.
- English: good writing, good speaking

- 1998 – 1999 – Erasmus/Socrates scholarship.
- 1996-1997 - Istituto per il Diritto allo Studio Universitario, from the University of Milan.
- 1995-1996 - Istituto per il Diritto allo Studio Universitario, from the University of Milan.
- 1995 – Saint Petersburg, Russia, schoolarship from the University of Milan for language studies.
- 1994-1995 - Istituto per il Diritto allo Studio Universitario, from the University of Milan.
- 1993-1994 – Istituto per il Diritto allo Studio Universitario, from the University of Milan.

«The Fascist elites, government and the Grand Council», Political Elites, Single Parties and Decision-Making in Fascist-Era Dictatorships, Workshop, Institute of Social Science, University of Lisbon, November 21, 2008.

«Deputados e ministros durante a transição democrática: Itália e Portugal», December 21, 2008.

«O sistema político do Salazarismo», O sistema político português, séculos XIX-XXI: continuidades e rupturas, convener André Freire, Biblioteca Museu República e Resistência – Espaço Cidade Universitária e Departamento de Sociologia do ISCTE, Lisbon, December 3th, 2008.

«La fine della repubblica e la nascita dell’Estado Novo (1918-1932)», Ripensare il fascismo, University of Padua and Bologna, October, 2008.

«O Secretariado da Propaganda Nacional no sistema político Português», XV Congresso internacional de Ahila, 1808-2008: Crisis y Problemas en el Mundo Atlântico, Universiteit Leiden, Departamento de Estudios Latino-americanos, Leiden – Netherlands, August 26 – 29,  2008.

«Sinistra Arcobaleno: as razões de uma derrota», O regresso de Berlusconi, Le monde diplomatique (Instituto Franco-Português), Lisbon, April 16th, 2008.

«O sistema político italiano à luz das eleições de 13 - 14 Abril 2008». Workshop, (Iscte-Cies), May  7th, 2008.

«A elite fascista: o Grande Conselho do Fascismo e os Ministros (1922-1943)», Congress of the Portuguese association of political science (APCP), Lisbon, March 6 – 7,  2008.

«O Secretariado da Propaganda Nacional e o Estado Novo», Seminários de História, Instituto de Ciências Sócias, University of Lisbon, October 19th, 2007.

«O Secretariado da Propaganda Nacional no quadro das Instituições do Estado Novo», Association for Contemporary Iberian Studies (ACIS), Oxford, Oxford Brooks University, September 4 – 6,  2007.

«As elites ministeriais no processo da transição democrática italiana», Portugal Contemporâneo: Politica e Relações Internacionais, Lisbon, May 19th, 2007.

«António Ferro e Salazar: as três fases de um intelectual anticonformista», Workshop: Salazarismo e Varguismo: duas ditaduras em comparação, conveners ICS-UL e CEHCP-ISCTE, Lisbon, April 20-21, 2006.

«Formas de propaganda e limites do consenso no Portugal salazarista», Congress of  the Portuguese association of political science (APCP), Lisbon, March 30 – 31, 2006.

«Elites ministeriais do fascismo italiano», 2º Conference on social history of the elites, November 13 – 15, 2003.