Patricio Silva - In the Name of Reason: Technocrats and Politics in Chile
Patricio Silva - In the Name of Reason: Technocrats and Politics in Chile Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr | 2009-01-31 | ISBN: 027103453X | PDF | 256 pages | 1.09 MB
In this book, political scientist and historian Patricio Silva examines their part in the story of twentieth-century Chile. Even before industrialization had begun in Chile, the impact of positivism and the idea of "scientific government" gained favor with Chilean intellectuals in the late nineteenth century. The technocrats who emerged from this background became the main architects designing the industrial policies of the state through the Ibáñez government (1927—31), the state-led industrialization project of the late 1930s and 1940s, the Frei and Allende administrations, Pinochet s dictatorship, and the return to democracy from the Aylwin administration to the present. Thus, contrary to the popular belief inspired by the dominance of the Chicago Boys, technocrats have not only been the tools of authoritarian leaders but have also been important players in sustaining democratic rule. As Silva shows, technocratic ideology in Chile has been quite compatible with the interests and demands of the large middle classes, who have always defended meritocratic values and educational achievements above the privileges provided by social backgrounds. And for most of the twentieth century, technocrats have provided a kind of buffer zone between contending political forces, thereby facilitating the functioning of Chilean democracy in the past and the present.
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