THE ORGANICISTS TRADITIONS: POLITICAL IDEAS AND PRACTICES OF REPRESENTATION IN THE PORTUGUESE REPUBLIC (1910-1926)

Abstract

The following text’s main goal is to analyse the instillation of ideas and organic practices about the political representation of the organisational interests included in constitutional projects and political programs presented during the Portuguese First Republic. Republicanism, Monarchism and Catholicism were the main ideological areas subjected to study having shown both liberal and anti-liberal political cultures. That reception is part of the history of the main traditions of Portuguese Organicism, and has given contribution towards the construction of the representative consultative model present in the Corporative Chamber of the Portuguese Estado Novo, where local authorities’ representatives and organisational interests are integrated.