The Responsibility of Governing and the Changes in the Workers' Party of Brazil

"This article analyzes the trajectory of the Workers’ Party (PT – Partido dos Trabalhadores) in Brazil, emphasizing the three points in time that most marked its history: its origin and initial proposals as an ideological oriented socialist party, the changes that occurred when it began to administrate several medium-sized and large cities and implanted the Participatory Budget (Orçamento Participativo), and finally, its victory in the presidential elections and the main lines of the policy implemented." (author's abstract