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| Author(s): |
Fernando Augusto Bizzarro Neto
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2013-04-07 |
| Examining board members: |
Rachel Meneguello;
Maria do Socorro Sousa Braga;
Oswaldo Martins Estanislau do Amaral
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| Advisor: | Rachel Meneguello |
| Abstract | |
This research is a case study of the trajectory of the PMDB in São Paulo between 1994 and 2010. Its goal is to understand the party's basic organizational features and its main state leadership, Orestes Quercia, simultaneously to the intense electoral decline PMDB-SP suffered in the period. Assuming that political parties are historical institutions, in which the organization and action of political elites respond to interests, institutional incentives and socio-historical context under limits imposed by their trajectory, this dissertation analyzes electoral and organizational data, interviews, party documents and secondary sources. It demonstrates that the strength and centrality of local organizations for both the party dynamics and its electoral performance, associated with the party since its foundation and institutionalization in the 60s and 70s, and the legacy of the emedebista past mark the institution during the period under scrutiny. The quercismo, group of party elites led by Orestes Quercia, nourished by this structure and made it the basis of its survival. However, this continuity was also crucial to the party's electoral decline observed in recent decades in the state. Changes in the configuration of paulista politics, increased competitiveness and the "presidentialization" of state politics produced a realignment of the electoral-party system to which the political machine organized by the PMDB of São Paulo, concentrated in local politics, was not adequate to keep winning elections (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 11/04106-2 - PMDB: party organization and development in São Paulo (1994-2010) |
| Grantee: | Fernando Augusto Bizzarro Neto |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |