Criação de “novos” partidos no Brasil contemporâneo: os casos do PSOL e do PSD

Abstract

This thesis aims to compare the birthand the development of the PartidoSocialismo e Liberdade (PSOL) and the Partido Social Democrático (PSD). Our research has as a starting point the premise that the origin of these parties contains a substantial influence upon their unfolding and their strategies and objectives. Therefore, our analysis proposes a comparison between not only the creation of these two new parties (PSOL e PSD), but also between their first members, their structural organization, the people enrolled in them, the strategies used by them, and theirperformance during the elections in which they participated. As a complementary analysis, we try to determine the elements that may reveal how much newness these parties offer to the Brazilian political and party systems. By exploring these aspects, highlighting the differences and similarities between these two parties, we hope to contribute to the understanding of how the same political arrangement can be a fecund domain to the development of parties that apparently show distinctive features.