The contributions of Oliveira Vianna for the analysis of the formation of Brazilian political parties

Abstract

The concepts of Oliveira Vianna are widely analyzed for their relevance to Brazilian’s social and political thought. However, we note that the theories of this thinker about Brazilian parties are less highlighted, as to reach an understanding of Oliveira Vianna about the formation of our parties, as to indicate if the ideas have continued this intellectual and/or similarity with other analyzes about development of political parties in Brazil. Faced with this gap, we propose the realization of an article that will focus on such issues. In this way, after discussing the perception of Oliveira Vianna on the process of formation of Brazilian political parties, we will compare their interpretation with conventional views on this subject, such as Victor Nunes Leal, José Murilo de Carvalho, Rachel Meneguello, Bolivar Lamounier and Maria do Carmo Campello de Souza. To the achievement of this work, we use as a method the bibliographic analysis of the main works of these authors. We start from the idea that there are important resemblances, connections and links between the reading of Oliveira Vianna about the formation of Brazilian parties with the interpretations of other authors dealing with this important sociological and political topic.