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A tese do lulismo (Singer, 2012) se baseia no argumento da alteracao da composicao das bases eleitorais dos ex-presidentes brasileiros Luis Inacio Lula da Silva (Lula) e Dilma Rousseff (Dilma), da classe media razoavelmente ilustrada para eleitores com renda media de ate dois salarios minimos. No entanto, e mais do que isso: a referida tese propoe que o lulismo atualiza a conciliacao entre a melhoria das condicoes de vida dos mais pobres, sem prejudicar os setores conservadores. “Reformismo fraco” e o termo proposto por Singer. Nossa proposta consiste em analisar as acoes do periodo Lula-Dilma sob esse enfoque teorico. Elemento fundamental do projeto politico petista de democracia participativa para o Brasil, as instituicoes participativas (IPs) proporcionaram mobilizacao de atores sociopoliticos de sua base mais tradicional de apoio. No entanto, de maneira coerente com os marcos do lulismo, as IPs mantiveram padroes de efetividade politica fraca e de carencia de legitimidade face as instituicoes da democracia representativa. PARTICIPATORY INSTITUTIONS UNDER LULISMO The Lulismo thesis (Singer, 2012) is based on the idea that both Lula and Dilma’s electoral bases moved from the middle class to voters with an median average income of up to two minimum salaries. However, lulismo is more than that: it suggests that Lulismo allows for na improvement of living conditions of the poor without harming conservative sectors. The concept of weak reformism best captures this phenomenon, according to Singer. Our paper proposes an analysis of the Lula-Dilma period’s participatory policies from this theoretical standpoint. A central element of the PT’s participatory democracy project for Brazil, the so-called participatory institutions (PIs), mobilized new progressive sociopolitical actors coming from their traditional support bases. However, PIs remained quite limited in terms of their political effectiveness and lacked legitimacy against representative democratic institutions, which is coherent with lulismo. Keywords: Intitucional resilience, Institutional participation, National councils, Health, Women’s rights. LES INSTITUTIONS PARTICIPATIVES SOUS L’EGIDE DU LULISME La these du « lulisme » (Singer, 2012) repose sur l’idee que les bases electorales de Lula et de Dilma Rousseff sont passees de la classe moyenne a des electeurs dont le revenu moyen median est inferieur ou egal a deux salaires minimums. Cependant, le lulisme est plus que cela : en effet, il permet une amelioration des conditions de vie des populations pauvres sans nuire aux secteurs conservateurs. Selon Singer, c’est le concept de reformisme faible qui rend le mieux compte de ce phenomene. Notre article propose une analyse des politiques participatives de la periode Lula-Dilma a partir de ce point de vue theorique. Element fondamental du projet politique de democratie participative porte par le Parti des travailleurs au Bresil, les institutions participatives (IP) ont mobilise des acteurs sociopolitiques faisant partie de sa base d’appui traditionnelle. Cependant, en raison des caracteristiques memes du lulisme, leur efficacite demeure limitee du point de vue politique et ces IP font etat d’un deficit de legitimite par rapport aux institutions de democratie representative Mots cles: Institutions participatives, Lulisme, Petisme, Mouvements sociaux, Gouvernement.