In the Name of Reason

Contents

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

List of Acronyms

Introduction: Technocrats and Politics in Chile

1 Scientific Politics in Chile: The Positivist Design

2 Pablo Ramírez and the “Administrative State”

3 Technocrats and the Entrepreneurial State

4 The Age of Global Planning

5 Pinochet and the Chicago Boys

6 The Concertación and the Emergence of a Technocratic Democracy

7 Technocracy in Chile: Past, Present, and Future

References

Index

“In the Name of Reason brilliantly shakes up the pejorative conventional wisdom regarding technocracy and democracy. Patricio Silva links the problem of technocracy to the larger question of the role of the middle class in Latin American politics and socioeconomic development. Largely of middle-class origins, technocrats may make a positive contribution by offering their political masters a buffer from political pressures in the policy process, thereby contributing to political stability and state-building.”

—Eduardo Silva, University of Missouri, St. Louis