Estado e poder político no Brasil : a experiência do Partido dos Trabalhadores no governo federal (2003-2010)

Abstract

This research is about State e political power organization over Luis Inacio Lula da Silva administrations (2003-2010). First, there is a critical research of theses aligned with the government, wich analize the relations of continuity/distance between it and 1990´s neoliberal period. We try to demonstrate how the proclaimed new development model , wich would have combined economic growth and income distribution, did not mean, in fact, a new model, but a possible adaptation of brazilian economy insertion in world favorable economic conjuncture. We present a critical assessment of lulismo thesis, demonstrating how the assigned meaning of the term in addition to a serie of analogies with classic concepts of brazilian sociological and political tradicion clarify some aspects of the form of government, but hide its intimate relationship with bourgeois hegemony construction by bringing forward Lula as a subproletariat political representative. Posteriorly, the State ans civil society relationship is thought from de hegemoy constitucion key and, therefore, we recover the democratic-popular strategy and the class character of the Lula´s administration. Lastly, we analyze the external face of brazilian State in the period, discussing the foreign policy conception from imperialism, dependency and capital-imperialism issues among the projection of brazilian State and capital on Latin America.