FROM PETISTA WAY TO BRAZILIAN WAY: HOW THE PT CHANGES IN THE ROAD

摘要: When Luiz Inacio ‘Lula’ da Silva won Brazil’s presidency in 2002, he and his Workers’ Party (PT) had most observers convinced that this was a watershed moment for the country’s democracy. After all, PT built reputation over twenty years good government ethics politics. Yet Lula’s has been severely undermined by corruption scandals, which surprised cynical PT-watchers fostered broad disillusionment among many long-time supporters. This article lays out four interweaving strands of explanation PT’s fall from grace, involving: high cost Brazilian elections, strategic decisions party’s dominant faction, economic constraints on an eventual Lula administration, difficulties multi-party presidential systems.