Autor/es
Descripción
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Colaborador
Palermo, Vicente
Meo, Analía Inés
Idioma
spa
Extent
364 p.
Derechos
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Identificador
Cobertura
ARG
BRA
2002-2007
Abstract
Based on a a conceptual frame that diagnoses a scenario of fluctuating political identities and transformed political parties, this thesis analyzes how that scenario influences the way organizations, networks and groups define their belonging to a government supporting ensemble [oficialismo] in Lula's Brazil (2002-2006) and Néstor Kirchner's Argentina (2003-2007), the sort of relationships they establish with other actors within the oficialismo, and how they bond with the government.
Under those questions lies another one about the dynamics within these oficialismos. I argue that analyzing these two active and organized government supporting ensembles by using the terms party in office or partisan coalition would be to forcefully reduce the heterogeneous variety of organizations and groups that composed the organized political orbit of both leaders. Therefore, the thesis proposes an approach through the concept of oficialismo, which better fits these ensembles of actors that have converged around, detached from and realigned with around Kirchner, in Argentina, and Lula, in Brazil.
The thesis argues that these oficialismos were defined by a heterogeneous composition and by multiple tensions. Also, that they lacked a shared identity, they had fluctuating limits, and that the president acted as an alternative device of articulation. Furthermore, it presents evidence of how the dynamics of the relationships between the different groups within both ensembles cannot be conceived as an institutional interaction between consolidated organizations which were treated as such by the president when it comes to calling for them and assigning them formal posts in the government structures.
As this thesis aims to analyze identitarian definitions within the oficialismos in order to understand their internal dynamics, I have opted not to study these ensembles from a institutionalist perspective of how government coalitions function. Not only because such an approach would prove to be inadequate to understand the Brazilian and Argentinian political representation contexts in those years. But also because the thesis is guided by another purpose –it wishes to comprehend in depth, through empirical work and based on the testimony of their own actors, the prime features of two government supporting ensembles.
Three government supporting sectors are defined in both cases: social organizations, national labor federations and what I have called the “partisan space”. The thesis does not focus on the reasons why these sectors became part of the oficialismos, but on how they experienced and interpreted their belonging to them, and the ways in which they related to the president and to the rest of the ensemble. I have not sought for an exhaustive enumeration of each actor –rather, I have selected different organizations and groups and have classified them in three sectors that could also be subject of comparisons between the two countries. These selection criteria have also been followed for the interviews and for the collection of documents published by the organizations.
Under those questions lies another one about the dynamics within these oficialismos. I argue that analyzing these two active and organized government supporting ensembles by using the terms party in office or partisan coalition would be to forcefully reduce the heterogeneous variety of organizations and groups that composed the organized political orbit of both leaders. Therefore, the thesis proposes an approach through the concept of oficialismo, which better fits these ensembles of actors that have converged around, detached from and realigned with around Kirchner, in Argentina, and Lula, in Brazil.
The thesis argues that these oficialismos were defined by a heterogeneous composition and by multiple tensions. Also, that they lacked a shared identity, they had fluctuating limits, and that the president acted as an alternative device of articulation. Furthermore, it presents evidence of how the dynamics of the relationships between the different groups within both ensembles cannot be conceived as an institutional interaction between consolidated organizations which were treated as such by the president when it comes to calling for them and assigning them formal posts in the government structures.
As this thesis aims to analyze identitarian definitions within the oficialismos in order to understand their internal dynamics, I have opted not to study these ensembles from a institutionalist perspective of how government coalitions function. Not only because such an approach would prove to be inadequate to understand the Brazilian and Argentinian political representation contexts in those years. But also because the thesis is guided by another purpose –it wishes to comprehend in depth, through empirical work and based on the testimony of their own actors, the prime features of two government supporting ensembles.
Three government supporting sectors are defined in both cases: social organizations, national labor federations and what I have called the “partisan space”. The thesis does not focus on the reasons why these sectors became part of the oficialismos, but on how they experienced and interpreted their belonging to them, and the ways in which they related to the president and to the rest of the ensemble. I have not sought for an exhaustive enumeration of each actor –rather, I have selected different organizations and groups and have classified them in three sectors that could also be subject of comparisons between the two countries. These selection criteria have also been followed for the interviews and for the collection of documents published by the organizations.
Título obtenido
Doctora de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Ciencias Sociales
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales