%0 Journal Article %T Organiza£¿£¿o e poder nos partidos brasileiros: uma an¨¢lise dos estatutos %A Ribeiro %A Pedro Floriano %J Revista Brasileira de Ci¨ºncia Pol¨ªtica %D 2013 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.1590/S0103-33522013000100007 %X analyzing official party documents (rules and constitutions), the paper compares the internal decision-making structures of the four major parties in contemporary brazil: pmdb, psdb, pfl/dem and pt. covering the period 1995-2011, two analytical dimensions have been set in motion: a) the inclusiveness of the party' decision-making organization, which concerns to the possible grassroots influence in the decisions made by party elites; b) the degree of centralization, as regards the articulation, hierarchy and control among party branches in local, state and federal levels. the findings suggest that party elites are not inert: they have been acting incisively to change and adapt party organizations, mainly due to exogenous pressures. %K political parties %K brazilian politics %K party organization %K party constitutions. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0103-33522013000100007&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en