Gobernanza en el Sistema Público de Investigación de la Argentina. La investigación científica en el CONICET entre 1976-1989.

Abstract

The interest of the article is to debate the governance in scientific research during the period 1976-1989 in the Public Research System (SPI), taking the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) of Argentina as a case study. The article attempts to answer the following question: What changes in CONICET's internal governance influenced the relative authority of the various actors that intervene in the Council, and the link with public universities between 1976-1989? The characteristics of hierarchical governance within CONICET during the last military dictatorship, and the network governance model between 1984-1989, are analyzed. It is argued that the changes in the governance models within the Council affected the relative authority of the actors involved in the main instruments for scientific promotion of CONICET and the link with public universities. The main information gathering techniques were, on the one hand, the semi-structured interview and, on the other, the analysis of various types of documents (primary sources such as documentary material, reports, records and minutes, official reports, laws, plans of S&T, resolutions, and official statistics, etc.).