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A C KN O W LED G MEN T S I am very grateful to many people, in numerous countries on multiple continents, who assisted me during the years when I gathered information for this book. In the course of writing this book, I spoke with hundreds of people who were very generous with their time. Although I can highlight only a few names here, I thank all those who took the time to speak with me about their work and who assisted me in other ways. I thank especially Kurt Weyland, who took time to discuss various aspects of my argument and who provided very helpful comments on earlier versions of the Introduction and Chapter 3. I have been privileged to have had Kurt and his wife, Wendy Hunter, as friends since our time together in Brazil in 1989–90, when we were all doing field research for our Ph.D. dissertations. They have been exceptionally kind and helpful, both personally and professionally, ever since, for which I will always be grateful. Tim Power, another friend from those early days of field research in Brazil, provided very useful comments on some aspects of my argument, in particular on the politics of Rio Grande do Sul, which were helpful in developing the arguments in Chapter 2. I also appreciated Peter Kingstone ’s comments on an early version of Chapter 3 (when it was just a conference paper), as well as his insights into some of the key policymakers in the state of São Paulo. Damien Shiels of the World Bank was very generous in sharing his insights and contacts as I prepared to do research in Costa Rica for what became Chapter 1. I want to thank him, too, for inviting me to give a presentation based on my research at a World Bank seminar for investment promotion officials in Rio de Janeiro. I also greatly appreciate his facilitating my meeting with his father, Tony Shiels, in Ireland. Based on xii  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS his extensive experience with the ida and as a consultant to cinde, Tony provided special insight into the cinde-ida connection. In Costa Rica, Enrique Egloff, former executive director of cinde, was of great assistance, as were other former and current members of cinde’s staff. Related to my research in Costa Rica and on Chapter 1 generally, my former student Ted Telford provided special insight and assistance with corporate and government contacts based on his experience working in site selection at Intel. I wish to thank him for speaking to me so many times about various aspects of the Costa Rica case. A highlight of my research on this case was the opportunity to interview—one-on-one, for well over an hour—José Marı́a Figueres, the former president of Costa Rica who played such a key role in bringing Intel to that country, when he visited Thunderbird at the invitation of his friend (and president of Thunderbird), Dr. Ángel Cabrera. I wish to thank Dr. Cabrera for facilitating that visit and for being so supportive of my research. In Guadalajara, Mexico, Sergio Garcı́a de Alba, former executive director of seproe (and later secretary of the economy in the Fox administration ), went above and beyond the call of duty in helping me gather information about seproe’s early years under Governor Alberto Cárdenas of Jalisco. I also wish to thank Federico Lepe and Elı́as Rangel of seproe, as well as Ernesto Sanchez of Jabil Circuits, for speaking with me numerous times and at length, as well as Dr. Arturo Santa-Cruz at the Universidad de Guadalajara, who helped with some crucial information about elections in Jalisco. In São Paulo, Brazil, I want to thank Emerson Kapaz, former director of the Secretaria de Ciência, Tecnologia e Desenvolvimento Econômico (sctde), and especially Jorge Funaro, former chief of staff of that agency, for numerous interviews over many years. In Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, I want to thank my Brazilian friends Francisco Peixe, his wife, Hilda, and son Gabriel, who invited me to stay as a guest at their home for extended periods when I was doing the research for Chapter 2. I must also acknowledge the exceptional assistance of Miguelangelo Azário, formerly with both Pólo and Dell, as well as numerous other Pólo and Dell employees. I am also grateful to Thiago de Aragão for helping to facilitate my contacts with two former governors of...

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