Why president speeches? rethorical agenda and coalition presidential system

• Grant number: 17/26738-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: April 01, 2018
• End date: September 18, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - State and Government
• Principal Investigator: Fernando de Magalhães Papaterra Limongi
• Grantee: Gleidylucy Oliveira da Silva
• Host Institution: Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 16/14525-6 - Political institutions, patterns of executive-legislative relations and government capacity, AP.TEM

Abstract

This research will analyse the presidential rhetoric in the multiparty Brazilian politicalsystem. American scholars considered the presidential speeches as a pressure mechanismused to grant presidential agenda success at the Congress. In the Brazilian context thepresident speeches have other functions. My hypothesis is that it has a multifacetedpower. Thereby, I will investigate the rethoric of the Brazilian president veiculated via atthe Voz do Brasil during two recent governments: Fernando Henrique Cardoso (PSDB)and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT). Therefore, we use quanti-qualitative content analysiswith lexicometrics. In this methods, the research inferences arises from the statistical datatext calculations made from software Iramuteq, based on software R. The advantages ofthis technique are the confiability, replicability and speed of data process. The corpus iscomposed by 623 speeches from both presidents spanning from 1995 up to 2002. Weexpect that the results demonstrate new approaches about Brazilian presidential systemand indicate possible relationships between rethorical agenda and government agenda,contributing to the growth of this research field in the Brazilian Political Science.