Estado Novo (Portugal)

Portuguese Republic
República Portuguesa (Portuguese)
1933–1974
Motto: Deus, Pátria e Familia
("God, Fatherland and Family")[1]
Anthem: A Portuguesa
("The Portuguese")
Flag of the National Union:
Map of the Portuguese Colonial Empire during the 20th century
Map of the Portuguese Colonial Empire during the 20th century
Capital
and largest city
Lisbon
38°46′N 9°9′W / 38.767°N 9.150°W / 38.767; -9.150 38°42′N 9°11′W / 38.700°N 9.183°W / 38.700; -9.183
Official languagePortuguese
Religion
Roman Catholicism
Demonym(s)Portuguese
GovernmentUnitary presidential one-party republic under an authoritarian corporatist dictatorship[2][3]
President 
• 1926–1951
Óscar Carmona
• 1951–1958
Francisco Craveiro Lopes
• 1958–1974
Américo Tomás
Prime Minister 
• 1932–1968
António de Oliveira Salazar
• 1968–1974
Marcelo Caetano
Legislature
• Consultative chamber
Corporative Chamber[4]
• Legislative chamber
National Assembly
History 
19 March 1933
11 April 1933
14 December 1955
25 April 1974
Area
• Total
92,212 km2 (35,603 sq mi)
Population
• 1970
25,796,000
GDP (nominal)1970 estimate
• Total
Increase $15.888 billion
• Per capita
Increase $616
HDI (1970)0.653
medium
CurrencyPortuguese escudo
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Ditadura Nacional
National Salvation Junta

The Estado Novo (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɨʃˈtaðu ˈnovu], lit.'New State') was the corporatist Portuguese state installed in 1933. It evolved from the Ditadura Nacional ("National Dictatorship") formed after the coup d'état of 28 May 1926 against the unstable First Republic. Together, the Ditadura Nacional and the Estado Novo are recognised by historians as the Second Portuguese Republic (Portuguese: Segunda República Portuguesa). The Estado Novo, greatly inspired by conservative and autocratic ideologies, was developed by António de Oliveira Salazar, who was President of the Council of Ministers from 1932 until illness forced him out of office in 1968.

Opposed to communism, socialism, syndicalism, anarchism, liberalism and anti-colonialism,[a] the regime was conservative, corporatist, and nationalist in nature, defending Portugal's traditional Catholicism. Its policy envisaged the perpetuation of Portugal as a pluricontinental nation under the doctrine of lusotropicalism, with Angola, Mozambique, and other Portuguese territories as extensions of Portugal itself, it being a supposed source of civilization and stability to the overseas societies in the African and Asian possessions. Under the Estado Novo, Portugal tried to perpetuate a vast, centuries-old empire with a total area of 2,168,071 square kilometres (837,097 sq mi), while other former colonial powers had, by this time, largely acceded to global calls for self-determination and independence of their overseas colonies.[6]

Portugal joined the United Nations (UN) in 1955 and was a founding member of NATO (1949), the OECD (1961), and EFTA (1960). In 1968, Marcelo Caetano was appointed prime minister replacing an aged and debilitated Salazar; he continued to pave the way towards economic integration with Europe and a higher level of economic liberalization[7][failed verification] in the country, achieving the signing of an important free-trade agreement with the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1972.[8]

From 1950 until Salazar's death in 1970, Portugal saw its GDP per capita increase at an annual average rate of 5.7 per cent.[9] Despite the remarkable economic growth, and economic convergence, by the fall of the Estado Novo in 1974, Portugal still had the lowest per capita income and the lowest literacy rate in Western Europe (although this also remained true following the fall, and continues to the present day).[10][11][12] On 25 April 1974, the Carnation Revolution in Lisbon, a military coup organized by left-wing Portuguese military officers – the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) – led to the end of the Estado Novo.

  1. ^ Gallagher, Tom (1983). Portugal: A Twentieth-century Interpretation. Manchester University Press. pp. 60, 99. ISBN 978-0-7190-0876-4.
  2. ^ Badie, Bertrand; Berg-Schlosser, Dirk; Morlino, Leonardo, eds. (7 September 2011). International Encyclopedia of Political Science. SAGE Publications (published 2011). ISBN 9781483305394. Retrieved 9 September 2020. [...] fascist Italy [...] developed a state structure known as the corporate state with the ruling party acting as a mediator between 'corporations' making up the body of the nation. Similar designs were quite popular elsewhere in the 1930s. The most prominent examples were Estado Novo in Portugal (1932-1968) and Brazil (1937-1945), the Austrian Standestaat (1933-1938), and authoritarian experiments in Estonia, Romania, and some other countries of East and East-Central Europe,
  3. ^ Meneses, Filipe Ribeiro (2002). "Review: The Origins and Nature of Authoritarian Rule in Portugal, 1919–1945" (PDF). Contemporary European History. 11 (1): 153–163. doi:10.1017/S096077730200108X. JSTOR 20081821. S2CID 162411841.
  4. ^ "Estado Novo - Presidentes da Assembleia Nacional e da Câmara Corporativa" (PDF). Assembleia da República. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 April 2018. Retrieved 28 April 2018. Alt URL
  5. ^ Kay 1970, p. 68.
  6. ^ "Portugal não é um país pequeno: superfície do império colonial português comparada com a dos principais países da Europa, Penafiel, [ca 1935] - Biblioteca Nacional Digital". purl.pt. Archived from the original on 14 May 2011.
  7. ^ Portugal: A Second Salazar?, TIME (Friday, Dec. 06, 1968) https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,844638,00.html
  8. ^ Portugal and European Integration, 1947–1992: an essay on protected openness in the European Periphery, Lucia Coppolaro, Pedro Lains, Brown University (e-journal of Portuguese History (e-JPH), Vol. 11, number 1, Summer 2013) https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Portuguese_Brazilian_Studies/ejph/html/issue21/pdf/v11n1a03.pdf
  9. ^ Mattoso, José; Rosas, Fernando (1994). História de Portugal: o Estado Novo (in Portuguese). Vol. VII. Lisbon: Estampa. p. 474. ISBN 978-9723310863.
  10. ^ Perreira Gomes, Isabel; Amorim, José Pedro; Correira, José Alberto; Menezes, Isabel (1 January 2016). "The Portuguese literacy campaigns after the Carnation Revolution (1974-1977)". Journal of Social Science Education. 14 (2): 69–80. doi:10.4119/jsse-747. ISSN 1618-5293. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  11. ^ Neave, Guy; Amaral, Alberto (21 December 2011). Higher Education in Portugal 1974-2009: A Nation, a Generation (2012 ed.). Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 95, 102. ISBN 978-9400721340. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  12. ^ Whitman, Alden (28 July 1970). "Antonio Salazar: A Quiet Autocrat Who Held Power in Portugal for 40 Years". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 January 2018.


Cite error: There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or {{efn}} templates on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=lower-alpha}} template or {{notelist}} template (see the help page).


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia · View on Wikipedia

Developed by Nelliwinne