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"The commemoration of the centenary of the founding of the Republic of Portugal has led to a number of initiatives. Dozens of books have been published and the book «Res Publica: Citizenship and Political Representation in Portugal, 1820-1926»,edited by Fernando Catroga and Pedro Tavares de Almeida, may rightly be considered as amongst the best to have been published.[...]The guiding principle of many articles can be found as a 'programme', a 'perspective', which is glimpsed in the two themes stated in the subtitle: citizenship and political representation. It is around these concepts that the book is linked and develops, which gives it a remarkable internal consistency,despite the diversity of the papers published in it.[...] The end result is a book of outstanding academic quality that is undoubtedly a work of note and of reference and the possessor of unquestionable durability". PARLIAMENTS,ESTATES AND REPRESENTATION, 31(2), 2011, 214-215 (review by António Araújo, University of Lisbon).