Dr. Patrícia Calca

Patrícia Calca is a political scientist (Ph.D.). She was a Post-Doctoral Fellow funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology with a double affiliation CIES-ISCTE University of Mannheim – Chair of Comparative Government and a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Data and Methods (University of Konstanz) until the end of winter 2022. She obtained her Doctorate in Political Science (specialization in Comparative Politics) from the University of Lisbon – Institute of Social Science and holds a Master’s Degree and a University Degree (Licenciatura), both pre-Bologna, in Political Science from the Technical University of Lisbon – ISCSP. Previously, she worked at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern, the University of Mannheim, the Open University (Portugal), the Lisbon University Institute, CIES (Portugal) and the University of ÉvoraCISA-AS (Portugal). Patrícia was a research visiting scholar at the New York University, the University of Mannheim and the University of Barcelona. She is an associate researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History – New University of Lisbon. Her research is inter-disciplinary and centers on political institutions; comparative politics and comparative political economy; EU; legislative behaviour and decision-making (governments, parliaments, and parties); public policy analysis; political accountability/responsiveness and corruption. In her dissertation entitled: Government’s Decision: A Theoretical and Empirical Study on Legislative Initiative as Strategic Behaviour, she developed and tested a formal model of legislative decision-making where she showed, with original data from Portugal (1982-2009), that majority status changes the strategic decisions of governments towards law proposals. Her work is published, among others, in Parliamentary Affairs, Crime, Law and Social ChangeRowman & Littlefield – Lexington BooksNação e DefesaBertrand.For further details visit her website or download her CV.