Brazil AIDS Policy and Civil Society Mobilization Data from 2007-2010

Original qualitative and quantitative data collected during nineteen months of fieldwork in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, and Brasilia from January 2007 to May 2010. The evidence includes over 100 in-depth interviews with civil society leaders, bureaucrats, politicians, and World Bank officials involved in AIDS policy development in Brazil. This dataset supports research on grassroots bureaucracy and intergovernmental relations in Brazil's AIDS policy sector.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the role of state resources in fostering civic mobilization based on fieldwork evidence
• Studying the negotiation and implementation of AIDS policy decisions based on interview data
• Examining factors that shape popular organization in neoliberal democracies based on the case study
• Reformulating theories of interest organizations based on evidence of sustained civic mobilization

Strengths

• Data collection spanned nineteen months from January 2007 to May 2010
• Includes over 100 in-depth, open-ended interviews with key stakeholders
• Combines qualitative and quantitative methods from fieldwork in three major Brazilian cities

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

Jessica Rich, QDR Harvested Dataverse

Collection Method

Fieldwork combining qualitative interviews and observation with quantitative methods

Time Range

January 2007 to May 2010

Freshness

Last updated 2025-10-20 20:00:11; freshness should be verified

Geography

Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, and Brasilia, Brazil