State-Sponsored Activism
Bureaucrats and Social Movements in Democratic Brazil

Through a study of AIDS policy, this book introduces a new model of state-society relations in democratic Brazil.

Jessica A. J. Rich (Author)

9781108470889, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 14 March 2019

252 pages, 31 b/w illus.
23.5 x 15.6 x 1.8 cm, 0.49 kg

'This book sets a new agenda for scholars of social movements, interest representation, policy-making, and public health?. Contrary to popular notion that corporatism is a relic of the past, Jessica Ri??ch argues that state actors in the twenty-first century remain deeply involved in shaping and subsidizing groups in civil society. Her innovative contribution to theories of state-society relations is embedded in a revealing analysis of Brazil's stunning policy success - addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic.' David Collier, Chancellor's Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley

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.

Subject Areas: Comparative politics [JPB], Political science & theory [JPA], Politics & government [JP], Hispanic & Latino studies [JFSL4]