State-Sponsored Activism

Bureaucrats and Social Movements in Democratic Brazil

Jessica A. J. Rich

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781108470889
• eBook ISBN: 9781108634809
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: American Government
• Index: Politics & International Relations

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Imprints Page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• 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
• Appendix: Survey and Catalog of Associations
• References
• Index