State-Sponsored Activism

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.

• | Author: Jessica A. J. Rich
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: July 22, 2021
• | Number of Pages: 258 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1108456804
• | ISBN-13: 9781108456807