This chapter previews the book’s main argument: government bureaucrats played a key role in helping Brazil's AIDS movement to endure and even expand over time. Also previewed are the broader theoretical contributions of the book to debates on social movements and state-society relations, in Brazil and beyond. First, in contrast to traditional approaches to social movements, the book offers a more optimistic perspective to the question of social-movement survival by revealing contexts in which state actors can help to cultivate civil society. Second, by arguing that state actors in Brazil are helping civil-society organizations to mobilize relatively autonomous political advocacy coalitions, the book introduces a new pattern of state-society relations—what I call civic corporatism. Finally, the book provides new insight into Brazil’s AIDS policy success by revealing the central role of civic advocacy in sustaining the policy model.