Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. List of Tables xiii
4. List of Figures xv
5. Acronyms xvii
6. Acknowledgments xxiii
7. I
8. 1 Introduction
9. Introduction 1
10. The Problem 4
11. The Case Studies 6
12. Ideology and Change: Are Ideologies Real? 10
13. The Idea and Ideology of Progress 17
14. Catalytic Interdependence 20
15. Political Science and Historical Processes: Toward Integration 27
16. 2 Domestic and International Choices
17. Science, Technology, and Modernization 29
18. Science and Technology for Development: Domestic Choices 35
19. Interdependence and Self-Reliance: International Choices 42
20. 3 Three Strategies for Managing Science and Technology
21. Goals, Means, Information, and the State 52
22. Strategies and Ideologies 62
23. Technological Laissez-Faire 65
24. Structural and Pragmatic Antidependency 68
25. 4 The Policy-Making Process and the "Subversive Elites"
26. Science and Technology Policy Making 83
27. The "Weathermakers": Intellectuals and Political Action 87
28. Egalitarian-Nationalist Weathermakers in Latin America 90
29. The Pragmatic Antidependency Guerrillas 93
30. II
31. 5 Argentina's Science and Technology Policy, 1966-1982
32. Two Ways to Travel 103
33. Argentina's Science and Technology Policy 104
34. Goals 113
35. Means 115
36. Management of Knowledge and Information 122
37. Role of the State 126
38. 6 Ideology and Policy Making: Fracasomania
39. Technological Laissez-Faire 135
40. The Quest for Technological Self-Determination 138
41. From Pragmatic Antidependency to Chaos 142
42. Erasing the Peronists' Legacy 147
43. Summary and Conclusions 149
44. 7 Science and Technology in Brazil, 1962-1982
45. Introduction 151
46. Brazil's Pragmatic Antidependency Science and Technology Strategy 152
47. Goals 165
48. Means 168
49. Management of Knowledge and Information 179
50. Role of the State 186
51. 8 An Image of the Future Takes Hold
52. Introduction 199
53. Ideological Background: Ideas, Sources, and Carriers 200
54. The Evolution of an Idea 208
55. Policy Continuity: Seizing Opportunities and Overcoming Obstacles 213
56. III
57. 9 Argentina's Aborted Venture into Computers in the Mid-1970s
58. Introduction 223
59. Electronics and the Computer Market 226
60. FATE Electronics and the National Computer That Never Was 230
61. 10 Brazil's Domestic Computer Industry
62. The Data-Processing Market, 1970-1982 238
63. Development of the Brazilian Computer Industry 244
64. The Pragmatic Antidependency Guerrillas at Work 258
65. The Multinational Corporations in an Ideologically Charged Context 272
66. Conclusions 276
67. 11 The Quest for Nuclear Autonomy in Argentina and Brazil
68. Introduction 280
69. Argentina: Success 283
70. Brazil: Less Than Success 303
71. Conclusion 327
72. Notes 333
73. List of Interviews 377
74. Index 385