Industrial policy, technology, and international bargaining
Subtitle: designing nuclear industries in Argentina and Brazil
By: Etel Solingen.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
Subjects: Nuclear industry -- Government policy -- Argentina.; Nuclear industry -- Government policy -- Brazil.; Industrial policy -- Argentina.; Industrial policy -- Brazil.; Technology transfer -- Government policy -- Argentina.; Technology transfer -- Government policy -- Brazil.
Description: 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 programs, using a multidisciplinary approach that ranges from the broad macropolitical to the most specific microeconomic. Finally, the book provides a perspective on the nuclear sector in industrializing states that the more typical concentration on strategic aspects has obscured.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-302) and index.