State-Sponsored Activism: Bureaucrats and Social Movements in Democratic Brazil
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 3/14/2019
EAN 9781108470889, ISBN10: 1108470882
Hardcover, 252 pages, 23.9 x 23.4 x 1.8 cm
Language: English
In State-Sponsored Activism, Rich explores AIDS policy in Brazil as a lens to offer new insight into state-society relations in democratic and post-neoliberal Latin America. In contrast to the dominant view that these dual transitions produced an atomized civil society and an impenetrable technocratic state, Rich finds a new model of interest politics, driven by previously marginalized state and societal actors. Through a rich examination of the Brazilian AIDS movement, one of the most influential movements in twenty-first century Latin America, this book traces the construction of a powerful new advocacy coalition between activist bureaucrats and bureaucratized activists. In so doing, State-Sponsored Activism illustrates a model whereby corporatism - active government involvement in civic mobilization - has persisted in contemporary Latin America, with important implications for representation and policymaking.
Introduction
1. A new approach to studying civil society
2. Grievances, resources, and opportunities
the initial success of Brazil's AIDS movement
3. Transformations in the state
4. Expanding the movement from above
5. Expanding the movement from below
6. A new model of social-movement mobilization
7. Re-examining state-society relations in the twenty-first century.