Relations between the State and industry in Argentina and Brazil

The political-economic histories of Argentina and Brazil reveal similarities and differences that facilitate understanding of the evolution and institutionalization of capitalism in Latin America. Based on this premise, this study focused on a specific time frame, between 1956 and 1978, considering the process of industrialization and the social, economic, and political relations that involved the state and industrial business associations in Argentina and Brazil during this period. Based on an interpretive analysis of the discourses found in the documents produced by these agents, across 12 cases constituted by the regimes and nations studied, we sought to understand the causal relationship between the pattern of relations between the state and the main industrial business associations and industrial upgrading in Argentina and Brazil. Using the QCA (Qualitative Comparative Analysis) technique, a comparative analysis was carried out between the cases and nations, finding indications that industrial upgrading, in the cases studied, required the organization of the state apparatus and that coordination between the state and organized industry ensured the difference between the two nations.