Jeff Seward

The Politics of Capitalist Transformation

Brazilian Informatics Policy, Regime Change, and State Autonomy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Only book length study of the important Brazilian policy on informatics that analyzes its complete evolution from its origins in the early 1970s to its eventual collapse in the early 1990s, when neoliberalism swept across Latin America.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9781138638181
• ISBN-10: 1138638188
• Artikelnr.: 75439430

Autorenporträt

Jeff Seward is an associate professor in the Department of Politics and Government at Pacific University. His research interests include comparative politics (with a special emphasis on Brazil and Latin America), political philosophy, political economy, and politics in literature and film.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Glossary of Terms and Acronyms
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Bringing Politics Back in
Chapter 2: The Strategic Universe and Brazilian State Autonomy: The Context
of the Brazilian Informatics Policy
Chapter 3: The Trajectory of Brazilian State Autonomy I: COBRA and CAPRE in
the Military Dictatorship, 1971-1979
Chapter 4: The Trajectory of Brazilian State Autonomy II: SEI and the
National Security Council in the Transition to Democracy, 1979-1984
Chapter 5: The Trajectory of Brazilian State Autonomy III: SEI, CONIN, and
the Ministry of Science and Technology: Consolidating Institutions in the
New Democracy, 1985-1987
Chapter 6: The Trajectory of Brazilian State Autonomy IV: The Decline and
Fall of the Market Reserve, 1987-1992
Chapter 7: Mapping the Topography of State Autonomy, 1971-1992
Chapter 8: Conclusion: Explaining the Autonomy of The Brazilian State CAPRE
and SEI, 1971-1992
Index