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Guest Researcher University of Aveiro | Research Unit on Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policies Luís F. Mota is a Researcher at the research unit on Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policy, University of Aveiro (GOVCOPP-UA), where he also lectured between 2015 and 2019. He holds a post-doctorate in Public Policy (2019) and a PhD in Public Administration (2016). His research interests are public policy-making, network governance, public sector reform, local governance and civil society organizations. He is currently working in the research projects ‘LSSR: Local State-Society Relations’ and ‘DECIDE: Decentralized Territorial Governance’. His publications include several book chapters in international publishers, including Palgrave and Edward Elgar, and several articles in international journals, such as International Journal of Public Sector Management, Historic Environment: Policy & Practice and Tempo Social. E-mail: luismota@ua.pt; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0618-8553

Research Interests

Civil Society, Elites, European Politics, European Union, Governance, Government, Institutions, Interest Groups, Local Government, Policy Analysis, Political Leadership, Political Methodology, Public Administration, Public Policy, Social Capital, Social Movements, Social Policy, Social Welfare, Welfare State, Political Sociology, Methods, Qualitative Comparative Analysis, Education, Council of Europe, Europeanisation through Law, Euroscepticism, Experimental Design, Higher Education, Mixed Methods, NGOs, Policy Implementation, Political Engagement, Southern Europe, Survey Experiments, Survey Research, LGBTQI, Policy-Making

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Luis has not yet joined any established ECPR Standing Groups or Research Networks.