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Technological Elites and Political Parties: The Venezuelan Professional Community

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2022

John D. Martz  and
David J. Myers
John D. Martz
Affiliation:
The Pennsylvania State University
David J. Myers
Affiliation:
The Pennsylvania State University
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As Latin America has moved through the second half of the twentieth century, both the public and private sectors have required increasing levels of technological skills and specialized expertise. In the public sector, this necessity has occasioned the rise to prominence of a sector known in Latin America as profesionales y tcnicos. This emergent elite has assumed a significant role in shaping and implementing public policy because its members command skills critical to the functioning of modernizing technological society. As a result, participation by professionals and tcnicos has become central to bureaucratic efficiency, economic development, and the manipulation of symbols that reinforce political legitimacy. Yet the political role of professionals and tcnicos has been little explored, and direct relationships between professional elites and national parties, often central to the democratization of developing nations, have received minimal attention.

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Research Article
Information
Latin American Research Review , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , 1994 , pp. 7 - 27
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Copyright 1994 by the University of Texas Press

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