Argentina: a restauração democrática e a indústria nacional

Abstract

Argentina and Brazil are the South America s biggest nations, as well as the main partners of the Mercosul. The evolution of the Argentinean s industrialization process, have had a significant influence in the southern America development. However, looking at the relative region s backwardness, surge a series of questions about the causes of the low degree of industrialization and development, if compared with such of other countries which found themselves, in the second part of the XIX siecle, in a similar or worst condition than this country. Why this has happened? Which were the public policy decisions that turned this fact possible? Which was the participation of the political, economical and social decision maker groups in this behavior? These questions, as well as the search for adequate answers to them and another doubts of this nature, are the main objective of study of the argentinean industrialization process in the 1983/2004 period and the causes of her weakness. The analysis shows the different political, economical and social attitudes, which lead to the present situation, the interest conflicts and the State fragmentation at the beginning of the XXIth. Century, and suggests alternatives to revert it.