Thursday, March 12, 2015
12 p.m.
McKinney Conference Room
Professor Lee explores how leaders of labor and civic organizations in Brazil and elsewhere mobilize and institutionalize divergent repertoires of social solidarity regarding social policy agendas, and how they channel those policy agendas into state institutions through the politics of threat and persuasion. He develops a society-based explanatory model of the welfare state, in which labor-civic solidarity and union-party alliance jointly account for outcomes of welfare state retrenchment as well as welfare state expansion.
Co-sponsored by Portuguese and Brazilian Studies.