Power of Ideology

Emanuel Adler is the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Chair of Israeli Studies and Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto.

• List of TablesList of FiguresAcronymsAcknowledgments1 IntroductionThe ProblemThe Case StudiesIdeology and Change: Are Ideologies Real?The Idea and Ideology of ProgressCatalytic InterdependencePolitical Science and Historical Processes: TowardIntegration2 Domestic and International ChoicesScience, Technology, and ModernizationScience and Technology for Development: Domestic ChoicesInterdependence and Self-Reliance: International Choices3 Three Strategies for Managing Science and TechnologyGoals, Means, Information, and the StateStrategies and IdeologiesTechnological Laissez-FaireStructural and Pragmatic Antidependency4 The Policy-Making Process and the "Subversive Elites"Science and Technology Policy MakingThe "Weathermakers": Intellectuals and Political ActionEgalitarian-Nationalist Weathermakers in Latin AmericaThe Pragmatic Antidependency Guerrillas5 Argentina's Science and Technology Policy, 1966-1982Two Ways to TravelArgentina's Science and Technology PolicyGoalsMeansManagement of Knowledge and InformationRole of the State6 Ideology and Policy Making: FracasomaniaTechnological Laissez-FaireThe Quest for Technological Self-DeterminationFrom Pragmatic Antidependency to ChaosErasing the Peronists' LegacySummary and Conclusions7 Science and Technology in Brazil, 1962-1982Brazil's Pragmatic Antidependency Science andTechnology StrategyGoalsMeansManagement of Knowledge and InformationRole of the State8 An Image of the Future Takes HoldIdeological Background: Ideas, Sources, and CarriersThe Evolution of an IdeaPolicy Continuity: Seizing Opportunities and OvercomingObstacles9 Argentina's Aborted Venture into Computers in the Mid-1970sElectronics and the Computer MarketFATE Electronics and the National Computer ThatNever Was10 Brazil's DomesticComputer IndustryThe Data-Processing Market, 1970-1982Development of the Brazilian Computer IndustryThe Pragmatic Antidependency Guerrillas at WorkThe Multinational Corporations in an IdeologicallyCharged ContextConclusions11 The Quest for Nuclear Autonomy in Argentina and BrazilArgentina: SuccessBrazil: Less Than SuccessConclusionNotesList of InterviewsIndex