State-sponsored activism: bureaucrats and social movements in democratic Brazil

Table of contents:

1.Introduction
2.A New Approach to Studying Civil Society
3.Grievances, Resources, and Opportunities: The Initial Success of Brazil's AIDS Movement
4.Transformations in the State
5.Expanding the Movement from Above
6.Expanding the Movement from Below
7.The Rise of Hybrid Social Movements
8.Re-examining State Society Relations in the Twenty-First Century

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.

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