The article analyses the changes and continuities related to the party identification and the party evaluation of the main four Brazilian parties: PT, PMDB,PSDB and PFL/DEM in 2002 and 2006. Data show a reduction in the party identification and the Worker’s Party as the one with the main reduction, although none of the other 3 parties have benefited of the reduction. The PMDB and the PT show the most significant changes in the voter’s social and demographic characteristics between elections. Finally, the analysis shows that the positive evaluation of the current government and the positive evaluation of the government party are variables strongly associated to the party evaluation.
Party identification; party evaluation; voter’s characteristics; government evaluation
