State elites and industrialization: comparison between Brazil, Argentina and Mexico (1920-1970

Renato Perissinotto (), Paulo Roberto Neves Costa (), Wellington Nunes () and Angela Ilha ()

Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 2014, vol. 34, issue 3, 503-519

Abstract: The purpose of this article is to stress on the importance of the sociology of state elites to fully understand developmental processes. With that purpose in mind, we comparatively analyze the industrialization process in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico from 1920 to 1970. Our analysis shows that although Argentina was in a much better condition to initiate its industrialization process in the early thirties, it was overtaken by Brazil and Mexico already in the late fifties. The article suggests that this took place because Brazil and Mexico, among other things, had a state elite willing to take development seriously, whereas Argentina lacked it. JEL Classification: Z13.

Keywords: Brazil; Argentina; Mexico; industrialization; state elites (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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