State-Sponsored Activism

Bureaucrats and Social Movements in Democratic Brazil
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-108-47088-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 239 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rich, Jessica A. J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Rich, Jessica A. J.
Jessica Rich is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Marquette University, Wisconsin. She has also held positions as a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and as a postdoctoral fellow at Tulane University's Center for Inter-American Policy and Research.