O comportamento ideológico do partido dos trabalhadores na câmara dos deputados na 52ª legislatura (2003-2007) no âmbito da política social

Abstract

Leaning over relationship between ideology and political parties, this paper investigates the ideological action of the Workers‘ Party, in the Chamber of Deputies in the 52nd Legislature. The objective is to understand the ideological discursive behavior of the PT for the social area, at the federal sphere of legislative power. We also aim to identify, quantitatively, the total number of bills formulated for the social area, and to know the main thematic axes in the social area. To this, we analyzed the bills submitted by the PT congressmen between 2003 and 2007, under the methodology of ideological classification of political parties developed by the research group "Ideology and Discourse Analysis", linked to the PPGCPol of the Federal University of Pelotas. In this, the methods adopted present a combination of discourse analysis and the content analysis, in order to map the ideological senses produced by parliamentarians and the contents of the draft laws authored by the PT deputies, respectively. Its theoretical contribution is based on the discourse theory of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. As a result of the research, it is possible to affirm that the PT party, in the 52nd legislature, was challenged by a major left-wing discourse at the scope of social policy. Nevertheless, it was also demonstrated the existence of PLs oriented by the ideology of right, in the production legislative of PT, which reinforces the pertinence of a non-essentialist and monolithic analysis of the parties in ideological terms.