Movement-Driven Development: The Politics Of Health And Democracy In Brazil - 9781503606166

Long infamous for its severe inequality, infant mortality, and clientelist politics, Brazil in the late 20th and early 21st centuries improved the health and well-being of its populace more than any large democracy. Christopher L. Gibson sheds light on the previously poorly understood cause of this shift, arguing that it was due to a subnationally-rooted process driven by civil society actors, namely the Sanitarist Movement. Gibson improves our understanding of the political and social trajectory of Brazil and similar democracies today.

• | Author: Christopher L. Gibson
• | Publisher: Stanford University Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 08, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 328 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1503606163
• | ISBN-13: 9781503606166