Industrial Policy, Technology, and International Bargaining: Designing Nuclear Industries in Argentina and Brazil

ISBN-13: 9780804726016 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 332 str.

Etel Solingen

Opis

This book suggests an alternative approach to understanding the sources of industrial policy and technological development. The conceptual sections address long-standing debates over the nature of the state and ruling coalitions, the political power of private actors, the process of international bargaining, and the determinants of technological change in the industrializing world. The empirical study constitutes a comparison of the Argentine and Brazilian nuclear programmes, using a multidisciplinary approach. The author closely examines the impact on their nuclear industries of differences in consensus and autonomy in Argentina and Brazil. Such differences illuminate state relations with private entrepreneurs and with the scientific-technical community, as well as the outcome of international bargaining, the success of technology transfer efforts, and the scope of technological spinoffs from the nuclear industry.