AN ANALYSIS OF THE GIDDENS THIRD-WAY IN BRAZIL: Cardoso’s Government Plans of 1994 and 1998.

The study of the Giddens’ Third-Way in Brazil has historical value and is necessary because its literature is incipient in Brazil and has shown importance in the Brazilian political study. Third-Way was a center-left world movement, flexible on the political spectrum although, with the proposal of Social-Democracy renewal. Cardoso had good political relationship with Clinton and Blair, classical Third-Way supporters. Through the qualitative approach and documentary analysis, Cardoso's 1994 and 1998 government plans were studied. The purpose is to verify links between both government plans and Giddens’ Third-Way. Eleven key principles of the Giddens Third-Way were listed to check on government plans. It was found that both government plans are related to the Third-Way proposals, however, the 1998 government plan has a greater epistemological and conceptual relationship with the Third-Way than the 1994 government plan. The 1994 government plan had six principles and a half related to the 11 principles of the Third-Way, while the 1998 plan had 10 principles related. Also, the 1998 plan was closer to the foundations of social democracy (center-left) and the 1994 plan was very close to social liberalism (center).