State-Sponsored Activism: Bureaucrats and Social Movements in Democratic Brazil

By Jessica Rich

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108470882
• ISBN13: 9781108470889
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.4" x 9.2"