Ideological perspectives on foreign policy in the Brazilian presidential election of 2018.
The main objective of this article is to estimate the position and differentiate ideologically the parties that disputed the Brazilian presidential election of 2018, through the analysis of their positions on foreign policy, expressed in their campaign manifestos. Based on the left-right and minimalist-protagonist scales, the positions of the parties in foreign policy in 2018 were also contrasted with the party positions estimated in the manifestos of the 2014 and 2010 campaigns. The estimates were made using the Content Analysis methodology. The results showed that there was a right turn in the party manifestos that disputed the presidential election of 2018 and that only the parties positioned to the extreme left defend a minimalist paper for Brazilian foreign policy. Moreover, when comparing the party manifestos of 2018 with those of the 2014 and 2010 elections we find that there is stability in the ideological ordering of parties from left to right.