The Power of Ideology

"List of Tables List of Figures Acronyms Acknowledgments 1 Introduction The Problem The Case Studies Ideology and Change: Are Ideologies Real? The Idea and Ideology of Progress Catalytic Interdependence Political Science and Historical Processes: Toward Integration 2 Domestic and International Choices Science, Technology, and Modernization Science and Technology for Development: Domestic Choices Interdependence and Self-Reliance: International Choices 3 Three Strategies for Managing Science and Technology Goals, Means, Information, and the State Strategies and Ideologies Technological Laissez-Faire Structural and Pragmatic Antidependency 4 The Policy-Making Process and the ""Subversive Elites"" Science and Technology Policy Making The ""Weathermakers"": Intellectuals and Political Action Egalitarian-Nationalist Weathermakers in Latin America The Pragmatic Antidependency Guerrillas 5 Argentina's Science and Technology Policy, 1966-1982 Two Ways to Travel Argentina's Science and Technology Policy Goals Means Management of Knowledge and Information Role of the State 6 Ideology and Policy Making: Fracasomania Technological Laissez-Faire The Quest for Technological Self-Determination From Pragmatic Antidependency to Chaos Erasing the Peronists' Legacy Summary and Conclusions 7 Science and Technology in Brazil, 1962-1982 Brazil's Pragmatic Antidependency Science and Technology Strategy Goals Means Management of Knowledge and Information Role of the State 8 An Image of the Future Takes Hold Ideological Background: Ideas, Sources, and Carriers The Evolution of an Idea Policy Continuity: Seizing Opportunities and Overcoming Obstacles 9 Argentina's Aborted Venture into Computers in the Mid-1970s Electronics and the Computer Market FATE Electronics and the National Computer That Never Was 10 Brazil's Domestic Computer Industry The Data-Processing Market, 1970-1982 Development of the Brazilian Computer Industry The Pragmatic Antidependency Guerrillas at Work The Multinational Corporations in an Ideologically Charged Context Conclusions 11 The Quest for Nuclear Autonomy in Argentina and Brazil Argentina: Success Brazil: Less Than Success Conclusion Notes List of Interviews Index"