Drawing on comparative historical perspective, the article examines the recent political changes in the party system and Brazilian democracy. On the one hand, the paper explains historical restrictions on the democratization processes. On the other hand, it highlights the inheritance of conservative sociopolitics matrix on the dynamics of electoral changes. The first section analyzes the conservative sociopolitics matrix’s development and identifies democratization processes’ weaknesses between 1945 and 1964. The second section focuses on political parties and democracy development during the last decades to identify the limits of the recent political changes.
democracy; conservative ideology; political parties; political changes
