The Radicalization of the Brazilian Catholic Church in Comparative Perspective
研究巴西天主教会在环境变化与组织价值观互动下走向激进化的过程，并通过阿根廷、智利、哥伦比亚的比较分析验证结论，适合关注组织变革与宗教政治化的学者。
The organizational transformation literature traditionally has focused on the processes by which organizations become politically more conservative. Recent changes in the Brazilian Catholic church, however, provide the opportunity for examining the conditions under which organizational transformation can take a politically radical direction. I argue that the church's radicalization can be understood only by examining the interaction of the organizational value set and elite response to environmental changes. Opportunity for organizational transformation is created by environmental changes, but the form that transformation takes is constrained by the value-defined terms of legitimate discourse. This interplay of opportunity and constraint explains both the transformation of the Brazilian church and the direction of that transformation. To develop this argument, I present a historical analysis of the process of change in Brazil and then reinforce the conclusions from this case study with a comparative analysis of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia.