Esquerda e direita no sistema partidário brasileiro: análise de conteúdo de documentos programáticos

Abstract

This article measures the ideology of Brazilian political parties, recurrently cited as inconsistent.The method applied is the content analysis of party programs, using an alternative scale, proposedto capture Brazilian specificities, usually neglected in the international comparative literature. Theparty positions are calculated for the main seven Brazilian parties in the left-right dimension and inthe conservative-liberal dimension, which are then crossed in a two-dimensional plane. The resultsare compared to other classifications found in the literature about Brazil and indicate the relevanceof mobilizing the ideological position of parties as independent variable to the understanding ofseveral aspects of the Brazilian party system.

Keywords

• Political Parties
• Ideology
• Content Analysis
• Party Manifestos.