Identidade política, desigualdade e partidos brasileiros by Fábio Wanderley Reis

“…The advent of the Worker's Party (PT), and its electoral disputes with the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB) point to an ongoing yet unaccomplished process: the emergence, in the orbit of both parties, of stable political-partidary identifications that could lead to a simplified and consolidated party system and the neutralization of the success of the excessively clientelistic and pragmatic orientation that characterizes Brazilian Democratic Movement Party's (PMDB) feeble regional roots.…”
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Quantitative and qualitative analysis on the legislative production relating to healthcare in passage in the National Congress in the years 2007 and 2008 by Viviane Cristina dos Santos, Marcos Bosi Ferraz

“…RESULTS: The analysis showed that the Workers' Party (PT) and Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) were the parties that presented the largest proportions of the draft bills (12.5% and 11.1%); 25.4% of the draft bills were presented by congress members with academic qualifications within healthcare and only 1.4% of the draft bills became transformed into legal regulations. …”
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