Inventory of the Robert A. Packenham papers
Finding aid prepared by Hoover Institution Library and Archives Staff
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Title: Robert A. Packenham papers
Date (inclusive): 1958-1991
Collection Number: 2006C47
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In English and Portuguese
Physical Description:
24 manuscript boxes
(9.6 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Writings, correspondence, notes, interview transcripts and sound recordings, and printed matter, relating to economic development
and dependency theory, American foreign aid, and political and economic development in Brazil.
Creator:
Packenham, Robert A.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Access
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
Use
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2006.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Robert A. Packenham papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Biographical Note
American historian and author Robert A. Packenham is a professor of political science emeritus at Stanford University.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection consists of writings, correspondence, notes, interview transcripts and sound recordings, and printed matter,
relating to economic development and dependency theory, American foreign aid, and political and economic development in Brazil.
Of particular interest in the collection are the files of research plans and procedures, individual and group socio-economic
demographic data on Brazilian federal deputies, and transcripts of interview with the deputies, conducted by Robert Packenham.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Economic assistance, American
Economic development
Brazil -- Politics and government
Brazil -- Economic conditions
Dependency
The Brazilian National Congress
1958-1984
Scope and Contents
Includes interview schedules and transcripts, research plans and procedures, research material, correspondence, and printed
matter
1964 Brazilian coup d'état
1962-1976
Scope and Contents
Includes articles and printed matter.
Foreign area fellowship in Latin America
1964-1967
Scope and Contents
Includes research plans and procedures, individual and group socio-economic demographic data on Brazilian federal deputies,
and transcripts of interview with the deputies, conducted by Packenham.
box 19
International Political Science Association, Seminario sobre Legislativo e Desenvolvimento, Rio de Janeiro
1974
box 6
A La Feira Industrial de Amostras de São Carlos
1964
box 3
Outline of study of Brazilian Congress
1964-1966
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence and research paper.
Research material
1958-1984
Scope and Contents
Includes notes, articles, and clippings.
box 4
1962-1967
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence.
box 9
1976-1980
Scope and Contents
Includes writings by David Fleischer on Brazilian Legislarive politics, state and national, in the 20th century.
box 2
Round-table meeting on parliamentary government, Bellagio
1963
Câmara dos Deputados
1964-1965
Boletim Especial, Embaixadas do Brasil
1964-1967
box 11
Diário do Congresso Nacional - Estados Unidos do Brazil
1964-1965
Brazilian national dependency
1964-1977
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, clippings, and writings.
box 7
1976-1977
Scope and Contents
Includes typescript drafts of "Trends in Brazilian Dependency Since 1964," by R. Packenham.
box 4
Education in Brazil
1964-1971
Foreign aid and political development
1959-1978
box 4
American Chamber of Commerce for Brazil
1972-1973
box 15
Peace Corps. Measurement of Peace Corps Program Impact in the Peruvian Andes: Final Report
1966
box 1
Reports of interviews
1962-1963
Scope and Contents
Includes reports and summary sheets of interviews with administrators of the Agency for International Development (AID), conducted
by Packenham.
Research material
1959-1978
Scope and Contents
Includes notes and printed matter.
United States policy toward Brazil
1960-1978
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, discussion paper, articles, notes, and clippings.
box 21
Latin American Studies Association
1974-1979
Scope and Contents
Includes meetings program and abstracts.
Social science and public policy
1966-1977
box 14
The Science and Public Policy Studies Group
1968-1977
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, articles, and printed matter.
"The Dependency Movement"
1987-1991
Scope and Contents
Includes research material.
box 14
"Exporting American Social Science: Foreign Aid or Cultural Imperialism"
1967
box 1
Foreign Aid and Political Development, dissertation presented by A. Packenham to the faculty of the Graduate School of Yale University
1964-1966
Scope and Contents
Includes research materrial.
box 16
"How Legislatures Do and Do Not Help Development: An Approach and Some Hypotheses"
1974
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence and research material.
"Latin American Dependency Theories"
1974-1990
"Legislaturas e Desenvolvimento Politico"
1966-1978
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, notes, minutes of meetings, and printed matter.
box 20
"The New Utopianism: Political Development Ideas in the Dependency Literature"
1978
box 14
"Social Science and Public Policy"
1978
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence.
box 15
"Social Science as Scholarship and Citizenship"
1975
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, notes, and drafts.
box 24
Sound Recordings
1964-1965
Scope and Contents note
Includes magnetic tape audio recording of interviews with Brazilian federal deputies regarding legislative recruitment and
socialization, narrated by R. Packenham.