A consensus has been established in Brazil in the last years regarding the irreversible institutionalization of a representative democracy, but at the same time it generated doubts about its quality. One of the dimensions that confirm this assertion is the fragile democracy and how political parties are seen and evaluated by Brazilians. Researches on this subject have shown that these institutions are considered the less trustful and the most corrupt. This article seeks to examine whether social capital could be a useful concept not only for understanding, but also in generating useful information for the construction of normative support to political parties and democracy in the country
O objetivo deste trabalho é o de examinar como o conceito de capital social poderia ser útil não só na compreensão, mas na possibilidade de gerar subsídios propositivos na constituição de uma base normativa de apoio aos partidos e consequentemente à democracia no país.