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

Solingen, Etel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0804726019 ISBN 13: 9780804726016

Publisher: Stanford University Press, 1996

Synopsis

This book highlights the conceptual utility of relying on macropolitical consensus and lateral autonomy for understanding industrial policy, international bargaining, and technological development, via an unprecedented systematic and multidisciplinary comparison of the Brazilian and Argentine nuclear industries.

About this title

Synopsis:

This book suggests an innovative 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 the first book-length 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.

About the Author:

Etel Solingen is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine.

About this edition

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0804726019
• ISBN 13: 9780804726016
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 332