From Trade Unions to the Government: The National Organization of the Brazilian Workers’ Party from 1980 to 2005 (Dos Sindicatos ao Governo: A Organização Nacional do PT de 1980 a 2005)
307 Pages Posted: 11 Aug 2012 Last revised: 14 Aug 2012
Date Written: August 27, 2008
Abstract
PhD thesis in Political Science, awarded with the CAPES Prize of Theses 2009 (Ministry of Education). Abstract: The arrival of Luis Inácio Lula da Silva and the Workers' Party to the federal government in 2003 represented the culmination of a long and deep process of institutional transformation, which changed significantly the organizational features of the party. In part as “inevitable” effects of a party that was gradually inserting itself into governmental institutions, but also due to strategic decisions of the dominant coalition that controlled the party since the mid-nineties, these changes have paved the way of PT to the federal government. Emphasizing both exogenous and endogenous factors as sources of change, this thesis analyzes these transformation processes from an organizational perspective, articulating external challenges and the party’s genetic model (Panebianco, 1988) with the strategies of the petista leadership.
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Keywords: Workers’ Party, PT, Political parties, Party organization, Politics in Brazil
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