Between leftist renovators and refounders: the Brazilian and Venezuelan party systems in the context of the "Pink Tide"

Authors

  • Wanderley dos Reis Nascimento Junior Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1676-6288.prolam.2017.134200

Keywords:

Party Systems, Tide Rose, South America

Abstract

The article aims to analyze the characteristics of the Brazilian and Venezuelan partysystems in the context of the “Pink Tide”. The conformation of several governments that define themselves as left or center-left progressives in general, represented a unique moment for the political history of Latin American and sprouted a vast literature on the paths and characteristics of these political forces. Regardless of used categorizations, the political forces that emerged in Brazil and Venezuela are inserted consensually in different categories. More broadly, we used the comparative methodologyand,strictly speaking, we base on the dialogue with the units of analysis of party systems (MAINWARING; TORCAL, 2006 and HUNTINGTON, 1968). That said, it is argued that distinct party systems were responsible for forming different types of lefts.

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Author Biography

  • Wanderley dos Reis Nascimento Junior, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro

    Doutorando em Relações Internacionais pelo Programa de Doutorado Interinstitucional IRI/PUC
    Rio e UNILA, mestre em
    Integração Contemporânea da América Latina pela Universidade Federal da Integração LatinoAmericana
    (UNILA), possui
    graduação em Relações Internacionais pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás (2014).

Published

2018-04-02

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How to Cite

Nascimento Junior, W. dos R. (2018). Between leftist renovators and refounders: the Brazilian and Venezuelan party systems in the context of the "Pink Tide". Brazilian Journal of Latin American Studies, 16(31), 99-118. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1676-6288.prolam.2017.134200