Administration of political parties committees and political action of provincial elites in Brazil of the Second Reign: the implantation of Liberal Center and its implications on the management of Liberal Party in the Province of Paraná (1868-1889)

• Autor(a) principal: Richter Gomes, Sandro Aramis
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Estudos Ibero-Americanos
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/index.php/iberoamericana/article/view/29838
• topic: Liberal Party. Political parties committees. Province of Paraná. Provincial elites.; Directorios partidistas. Elites provinciales. Partido Liberal. Provincia del Paraná.; Diretórios partidários. Elites provinciais. Partido Liberal. Província do Paraná.

This article contains an investigation into the impact of the reorganization of the Liberal Party’s national political party committee on the management of the Liberal Party in the Province of Paraná during the 1870s and 1880s. The fundamental argument of this study is that the reorganization did not provoke the increase of control of the national political party committee over the other administrative instances of the association. The political elite linked to the Liberal Party in Paraná conserved about their autonomy to define the model of management and modes of operation of the local units of the association. Therefore, it is evidenced that in the late 1870s such autonomy gave rise to a management model marked by the existence of a supreme leader. Therefore, it should be demonstrated that, on the one hand, the administrative reorganization of the Liberal Party did not reduced the prerogatives of the regional elites to develop proper criteria for local government of directories. On the other hand, this reorganization did not promote, in the context of Paraná, a renewal of the board of directors of the association.