O partido da social democracia brasileira: trajetoria e ideologia

Abstract

The Brazilian Democratic Social Party (PSDB) was founded in 1987 as a center-left political party option. According to the founders, the party was created with the proposal to be embedded within the social democracy. However, since its foundation the party has two main features that make it completely different from what we know about the European social democracies parties. Firstly, it was not concerned with working class movements. Secondly, since its very beginning, the PSDB has been a defender of market liberalism. On the one hand, the economic and political context in which the PSDB was established could justify the adoption of its name and initial position. Nevertheless, on the other r hand, in its history, the party has continuously demonstrated its affinities with the neoliberal ideology. This is a fact that could be observed in face of the positioning of its Members of the Parliament and in the policies that have been implemented in PSDB s Federal Government mandatory years. Through analysis of the PSDB s documents, carried out in support of this thesis, it is possible to see that no paradigmatic change has occurred in the Party s history. In fact the PSDB has always showed in its policies manifestos proximity with market policies since its foundation.