5 - Expanding the Movement from Above

Summary

The remaining empirical chapters, Chapters 5 through 7, describe the development of civic corporatism in Brazil’s AIDS policy sector in the first decade of the 2000s. Chapter 5 focuses on why and how federal bureaucrats sought to expand the AIDS movement into poorer and more rural regions of Brazil. It argues that bureaucrats in the national AIDS program were motivated to expand independent civic organization and mobilization in the early 2000s, when AIDS policy was decentralized, because the increased AIDS policy authority of mayors and governors threatened to undermine the national policy model they had built. Chapter 5 then describes how these federal bureaucrats provided new grassroots organizations across Brazil with resources and opportunities to access the political arena.