Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência Política

This work analyzes the état de l’art of literature about the transformation of party participation produced in the last few decades. Two
main goals will lead our discussion: on the one hand we will aim to provide a reference overview that can contribute to developing
further research on this matter; and on the second hand, we will try to mitigate the segmentation that characterizes the different analytical
streams. Reviewing papers published in journals, but also Anglo-Saxon and French books, we get to compare their research problems,
their underlying theoretical issues, as well as their specific methods. We will thus identify the structures of two fields in Political
Sciences production that barely communicate between each other. First, the mainstream “Political Science” tradition, whose studies
favor a systemic and comparative approach, relying on a fundamentally statistical demonstration. On the other hand, a Political Sociology
tradition, developed in France and whose analytical perspective is little known at an international level. Influenced by the
interactionist paradigm, this kind of research employs the socio-ethnographic method and redirects the focus of analysis to social
meso and micro levels. Making a critical assessment of the main contributions of both strands, we point some current trends observed
by scholars and we especially insist in the heuristic potential offered by research developed in Political Sociology to add new elements
for understanding this phenomenon.

Cette contribution cherche à décrypter le processus d’adoption et de codification des élections primaires à l’aune des jeux concurrentiels au sein du Parti Justicialiste qui gouverne le pays durant la période (2002-2011). Plus précisément, il s’agit de montrer que la législation sur les primaires ouvertes constitue une stratégie d’externalisation de la sélection de candidats qui vise à provoquer un réalignement du pouvoir intra-partisan et, par conséquent, à raffermir le leadership.