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Do you have any more mainstream examples than your software engineer? I really don't know what you mean by "dogma." In the 19th century the word was not used so pejoratively but lately I can't think of anyone who would describe their package of beliefs as a dogma.
Again, the RAND Corporation. There's plenty written about its mindset and practices, including in connection with the whole Vietnam deal - Agent Orange and all that. "Forced-draft urbanization", ain't that a brilliant fucking idea? Hell, thinking of that, the CIA analysts probably also qualify as slaves not only to bureaucracy, but to the Cult of Reason as well.
Samuel Huntington certainly had a bloodless way of writing. I wonder if he would have characterized himself as dogma-free.
Where else have you written about the rand corporation?
Nowhere, just mentioned it in this thread twice. You can start with Soldiers of Reason by Alex Abella, though - it's really rather biased against RAND, but has plenty of info.
There's also an interesting-sounding title in the Wikipedia links, Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy: The Cold War Origins of Rational Choice Liberalism, but I haven't read that one yet. Looks like it'll be more helpful for my argument, judging by the name and the summary.
Oh, looks like its first 180 pages are on Google Books.