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The Politics of Capitalist Transformation: Brazilian Informatics Policy, Regime Change, and State Autonomy
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The Politics of Capitalist Transformation is the only book-length study of the highly protectionist Brazilian informatics policy from its origins in the early 1970s to the collapse of the market reserve in the early 1990s and its impact in subsequent decades.Jeff Seward provides a sophisticated political analysis of how state activists constructed high levels of state autonomy to try to shift Brazil to a new variety of capitalism by eclipsing the multinational companies (especially IBM) that dominated the Brazilian computer sector and replacing them with local companies with 100 percent Brazilian technology and ownership. This ambitious policy required repeated shifts of political strategy and policymaking institutions to respond to a constantly changing economic and political environment as Brazil made a dramatic transition from military dictatorship to democracy.The innovative framework to analyze state autonomy and the sophisticated political analysis of the policymaking process will be of interest to scholars and students of Brazilian and Latin American political economy, varieties of capitalism theory, state theory, democratic transition theory, and high technology policymaking in developing countries.

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This richly detailed analysis of the rise and fall of Brazils market reserve for informatics provides insights into both the art of policy making and the limits of protectionism. Combining archival research with interviews with key players, the text provides fascinating details and some provocative insights.

Melissa H. Birch, University of Kansas, USA

Its time for us to take on the big boys! was a widespread sentiment in Brazil during the seventies and eighties, referring to IBM and other giant globalized informatics enterprises. And so Brazil gave it a try. Its bold and fascinating effort, perhaps the last major ISI project in Latin America, failed in the end. But Sewards bookdeeply researched, extremely well written, analytically richtells this important and instructive tale better and more comprehensively than any other work I know.

At one level this is a case study. In social science graduate training today, rhetoric honors multi-methods but reality often treats case studies as inferior to big data, econometric techniques, formal theory, and formal experimental designs. This book reminds us how indispensable case studies are and how valuable a fine case study can be. At another level the book is informed by and explores theoretical literatures on state autonomy, regime change, varieties of capitalism and the causes and effects of these phenomena. It draws hypotheses from those literatures, tests them with the case study data, and generates new hypotheses from those data.

Finally, in my opinion taken as a whole the book supports a growing trend among scholars to think of political leaders and institutions as critical variables for explaining successes and failures of development (economic, social, political). This may be an unintended feature of the book, which is not explicitly concerned about development very much, but it might be a result of it, and if so a very positive one.

Robert A. Packenham, Professor of Political Science Emeritus, Stanford University; Author of Liberal America and the Third World: Political Development Ideas in Foreign Aid and Social Science (1973, 1976, 2015) and The Dependency Movement: Scholarship and Politics in Development Studies (1992, 1998)

The Politics of Capitalist Transformation

The Politics of Capitalist Transformation is the only book- length study of the highly protectionist Brazilian informatics policy from its origins in the early 1970s to the collapse of the market reserve in the early 1990s and its impact in subsequent decades.

Jeff Seward provides a sophisticated political analysis of how state activists constructed high levels of state autonomy to try to shift Brazil to a new variety of capitalism by eclipsing the multinational companies (especially IBM) that dominated the Brazilian computer sector and replacing them with local companies with 100 percent Brazilian technology and ownership. This ambitious policy required repeated shifts of political strategy and policymaking institutions to respond to a constantly changing economic and political environment as Brazil made a dramatic transition from military dictatorship to democracy.

The innovative framework to analyze state autonomy and the sophisticated political analysis of the policymaking process will be of interest to scholars and students of Brazilian and Latin American political economy, varieties of capitalism theory, state theory, democratic transition theory, and high technology policymaking in developing countries.

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.

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8 Transnational Activism and National Movements in Latin America

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15 Business- State Relations in Brazil

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16 The Politics of Capitalist Transformation

Brazilian Informatics Policy, Regime Change, and State Autonomy

Jeff Seward

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ABICOMP Brazilian Association of the Computer Industry ( Associao Brasileira da Indstria de Computadores ), trade association created under the guidance of CAPRE in the late 1970s that included only 100 percent Brazilian companies and became a strong private lobbying group supporting SEI and the informatics policy.

BNDE National Bank for Economic Development ( Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econmico ), state-owned development bank that was a prime agent for generating strategies and funding for major Brazilian development projects from the 1950s onwards, and one of prime movers in creation of DIGIBRS and COBRA in the early 1970s. Later became the BNDES, adding Social to its title.

COBRA Brazilian Computers ( Computadores Brasileiros ), state-owned computer company originally founded in 1974, intended to be a tri-p but evolved into fully state-owned company that became a leader in development of Brazilian minicomputers in the 1980s and strong supporter of SEI and the informatics policy.

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