Author:

Lucas Nascimento Ferraz Costa

Abstract:

This paper introduces an interpretation regarding the existence of a performance pattern among the pressure groups during the constituent process of 1987-88, as well as its implication in determining the lobbies’ success. We support that the lobby in the period was divided into two groups, defined by the outcome of the relation between the pressure groups’ organizational characteristics and the interest area to which they belong. This dynamic constitutes a theoretical model defined by the trend of a single pressure group to seek the centralization of the demands and to represent, formally or not, all the other groups through a single project for its interest area. We also support that the capacity of this group in conciliate the different demands among the actors in a given interest area has determined the lobby success. This hypothesis is based in case studies on the performance of pressure groups in the labor and social areas.