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THE SENSES OF PAARTICIPATION IN THE WORKERS PARTY (1980-2016)

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posted on 2019-09-25, 02:44 authored by Carla de Paiva Bezerra

At the 1982 election, the Workers’ Party (PT – Partido dos Trabalhadores) released the motto: “to govern with popular participation and inversion of priorities”. These ideas would accompany the party throughout its history, although with substantial changes in the way they were perceived by its militants and leaders. These changes were made explicit by the priorities given to different public policy instruments, ranging from the proposal to govern by Popular Councils in the 1980s to the constitution of a National System of Participation in the federal government in 2014. We argue that there is a relational dynamic, in which the adoption of different public policy instruments for the implementation of the participation guidelines simultaneously shapes and reflects party ideological preferences. Based on the experimentalism of its municipal, state, and federal administrations, successful experiences were incorporated into the party program as examples to be followed by other PT governments. From the systematic analysis of party resolutions and publications, we present how the meanings attributed to the term participation and its various adjectives gradually change, together with the choice of priority instruments for the implementation of participatory policies.

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