André Freire


André Freire was a Portuguese academic who was Full Professor of Political Science at ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon University Institute, and a senior researcher at .

Life and career

Freire was a Full Professor of Political Science at ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon University Institute., and a senior researcher at, where he was also the Director of the Observatory for Democracy and Political Representation. He conducted research in the fields of Political Behaviour and Political Attitudes, Political Representation, Political Elites and Political Institutions, both at the national and international levels. He lectured about these topics and also has several publications in different languages in books, book chapters and articles in academic periodicals. Freire received several awards and scholarships related to his research.
Moreover, Freire collaborated with several publications in the Portuguese press, on a regular basis with the Público and the Jornal de Letras newspapers, having also been a political commentator on televisions, radios and other newspapers.
Civically, he was a member of the National Union of Higher Education and 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, from 2007 to 2010, and was a co-creator of the blog A Vaca Voadora, where he participated since 2016 until his death.
Freire died from complications of surgery on 30 October 2024, at the age of 63.

Selected publications

Books (author)

Freire, André, ', Lisboa, Imprensa de Ciências Sociais; English translation: Left and Right in European Politics. Portugal, Spain and Greece in Comparative Perspective
March, Luke, and Freire, André, ', Porto, Quid Novi; English translation: The Radical Left in Portugal and Europe: Marxism, Mainstream or Marginality?
Freire, André, ', Lisboa, Contraponto; English translation: Beyond the «Contraption»: The Leftist Government in Portugal and Europe
Freire, André, ', Moldova: Eliva Press.

Books (editor)

Freire, André, Marina Costa Lobo & Pedro Magalhães, ', Lanham, MD: Lexington.
Freire, André, ', Lisboa, Colibri; English translation: Elections and Electoral Systems on the Portuguese XX century: An Historical and Comparative balance
Freire, André, ', Coimbra, Almedina; English translation: The Portuguese Political System, centuries XIX-XXI: Continuities and Ruptures
Freire, André, Mélany Barragan, Xavier Coler, Marco Lisi & Emmanouil Tsatsanis, , Edited volume for Routledge book series “Routledge Research on Social and Political Elites”.
Lisi, Marco, André Freire & Emmanouil Tsatsanis, ', Lexington Books – Rowman & Littlefield.

Articles (or edition of special issues) in international peer reviewed journals

Freire, André, “Bringing Social Identities Back In: The Social Anchors of Left-Right Orientation in Western Europe”, International Political Science Review, 27, 359–378. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0192512106067358
Costa, Olivier, André Freire Jean-Benoit Pilet, Editors of the Symposium “”, organized for the journal Representation – Journal of Representative Democracy, Volume 48, pp. 351–418..
Freire, André & Ana Belchior, “Ideological Representation in Portugal: MPs-Electors Linkages in Terms of Left-Right Placement and Substantive Meaning”, Journal of Legislative Studies, 19, No.1, pp. 1–21. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13572334.2013.736784
Freire, André, Marco Lisi, Ioannis Andreadis & José Manuel Leite Viegas, Editors of the Special Issue “”, South European Society and Politics, Vol. 19, nº 4, pp. 413–559.
Freire, André, “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, Editors of the Dossiê “”, Portuguese Journal of Social Science, Vol. 15, Nº 2, pp. 153–274.
Freire, André, and Kats Kivistik, «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. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.postcomstud.2016.08.002
Freire, André, & Kivistik, Kats, «», Comparative European Politics, Volume 16, pp 249–270.
Freire, André, "", Brazilian Political Science Review, 15,
Freire, André, Andrea Pedrazzani, Emmanouil Tsatsanis, Xavier Coller & Paolo Segatti, "", 26:2, 271–301,