Del 16 i serien Studies in International Political Economy

Power of Ideology

The Quest for Technological Autonomy in Argentina and Brazil

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

AvEmanuel Adler

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In this prodigiously researched book, Emanuel Adler addresses the hotly contested issue of how developing nations can emerge from the economic and technological tutelage of the developed world. Is the dependence of Third World countries on multinational corporations—especially in the realm of high technology—a permanent fixture of an inherently unequal relationship? Or can it be managed by the developing nations for their benefit? By a masterful comparative study of the development of science and technology in Argentina and Brazil, the author discusses governmental policies that are effective in attaining autonomous technological development. Professor Adler provides a useful corrective to the structural theories of development that have up to now prevailed in the study of international relations by demonstrating that intellectual and technological elites play a far more significant role in the success or failure of such governmental policies than has hitherto been recognized.This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-06-21
Mått152 x 229 x 28 mm
Vikt771 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in International Political Economy
Antal sidor428
FörlagUniversity of California Press
ISBN9780520415089

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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