Democracia interna nos partidos políticos: uma análise comparativa dos principais estatutos brasileiros

Abstract

This dissertation seeks the presence of internal democracy in main brazilian political parties, by analyzing its statutes. The current context shows discrediting of politicians and institucional politics itself as a weapon for social changes, helping to apart citizens from political-electoral setting. Replying to this diagnostic, the matter of political parties intern democratization was searched, as a way to reapproch citizens from political scene, to give participation to affliated and legitimize internal decision’s process. From classic sociological theory of Robert Michels about the process of parties oligarchying, it was made an analysis of statutes from Democrats, Brazilian Social Democracy Party, Brazilian Democratic Movement Party and Worker’s Party, to identify member’s direct participation on deliberative and elective processes and party’s decision-making. Methodologically, the bibliographical qualitative research focused in doctrine, legal-positives and party statutes. Concluding, massive parties, as Worker’s Party, are more open for members to participate on making-decision processes, a antitheses of parliamentary parties, which are meaningly less opened. This aspect make the parliament parties more likely to oligarchy process; however, this process tends to condition all political parties in some extend, mostly after winning importante government positions.