According to one of the think-tanks of Brazil's Center for Public Leadership. Mr. Luiz Felipe d'Avila believes that the country's past has an everlasting imprint on its current politics. 26 out of the 32 registered political parties names consist of words like: "social", "democrat" and "workers". There is a strong disliking to the label of being "right-wing" because of the country's past of a military dictatorship.With that said, even those parties who are not on the left side of Brazil's political spectrum, do not call themselves the right. Why is that? The issue with this is that many voters run the other way when they see the term "conservative", even though they still hold right-winged views on issues. As Roskin mentions in the chapter, Brazil inherited some defective basic institutions that left the country stuck in old quarrels. How long do you think it will take for Brazil to get over their past? It seems that the voters are just as defective as the institution.
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