Authors:
Euzeneia Carlos
Monika Dowbor
Maria do Carmo Albuquerque
Abstract:
The theme of social and political changes associated with social movements has consolidated its own research agenda. This book examines the consequences of social movements on public policies in Brazil, in the period after the Constitution of 1988, based on a diversity of empirical cases and a plurality of theoretical approaches. The book illustrates the effects of movements on social, urban, agrarian and human rights policies, in the Executive, Legislative and Judicial spheres of government, and at national, state and municipal levels. The book diagnoses that social movements generate effects at multiple stages of the policy cycle, from their origin to their formulation and implementation, affecting the creation of state capacities and the provision of public services. The conditions that favour their results consist of a combination of mutually related elements, which gravitate from the movement's configurations in terms of organization, repertoires, trajectories and coalitions to the structuring of the state and politics, the bureaucracy or institutional arrangement. This diagnosis was only made possible by the proposal of this book, which brings together the various approaches that guide the understanding of political effects based on emblematic cases of movements.
This collective book advances the debate beyond accumulated knowledge, with the most comprehensive scope and product of the broadest dialogue on the political consequences of social movements ever recorded in the country's publishing plan.
Source:
EDUFES
