Brazil’s Participatory Infrastructure

doi:10.1017/9781108895835.007

5 - Brazil’s Participatory Infrastructure

Opportunities and Limitations for Inclusion

from Part I - Extending Social Policy and Participation

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 January 2021

Lindsay Mayka and

Edited by

Steven Levitsky and

Diana Kapiszewski: Affiliation:
Georgetown University, Washington DC
Steven Levitsky: Affiliation:
Harvard University, Massachusetts
Deborah J. Yashar: Affiliation:
Princeton University, New Jersey

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This chapter sets out a roadmap to understand the new politics of participation in Latin America by exploring the intersection between two important transformations in society and the state. First, we highlight new actors in state and society who are pressing for policy reform. Whereas the existing literature focuses on interests organized around social class and indigenous identity, we reveal a rainbow of societal actors that span class lines, as well as the emergence of activist bureaucrats, who work together to demand greater social inclusion and policy change. Second, while prior studies emphasize representative institutions as the main site to advance policy change, we analyze the importance of new institutions for participation in the executive and the judicial branches of government. These sites have been central for activism in a range of underexplored policy areas, including the environment; the rights of women, people with disabilities, and sexual minorities; and crime. Together, we argue, these new actors and institutions are redefining the politics of participation today in Latin America.

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