Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Bastos, Maria-Inês
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Author-Workplace-Name: United Nations University, Institute for New Technologies
Title: What Hope can Democracy bring to S&T Policy Making in Latin America?
Abstract: The relationship between insulated state agencies and central actors in the
	 production, adaptation and application of knowledge did not generate realistic
	 policy goals nor stimulate collaboration in authoritarian Latin America. Because
	 the agencies were deficient in social 'embeddedness' and had been 'captured' by
	 corporate interests, S&T policy making expressed neither autonomy nor state
	 strength and was more an impediment than an asset for efficient intervention.
	 Competitive democracy and the development of institutionalized channels of
	 communication between state and society signals the prospect for policies to
	 increase social adherence and induce collaboration which should result in less
	 state-centric S&T policies. Electoral cycles may represent a danger to policies of
	 longer periods of maturation, but democratization in Latin America gives hope that
	 political parties and the electorate will eventually mature and be sensitive to
	 measures with less immediate results
Keywords: Science and Technology Policy,  Policy Making, Democracy, Latin America 
Series: Discussion Paper
Creation-Date: 1995
Number: 05
File-URL: http://www.intech.unu.edu/publications/discussion-papers/9505.pdf
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Handle: RePEc:unm:unuint:199505