The Struggle for Mexico: State Corporatism and Popular Opposition

by Debra D. Chapman

Overview

In the 1970s political and economic changes to the world order led to an emerging "globalization" credited with the ceding of state sovereignty to a "de facto world government" of transnational corporations and with the anti-globalism movement directed at countering it. Mexico, however, has maintained the salience of the national unit in the form of the state as a ruling apparatus and as the target of organized, non-state, political opposition. This study examines the transformation of Mexico's social and political organization from state corporatism to transnationalized corporatism, a form distinguished by the effect that International Financial Institutions and the World Trade Organization have on the state's relationship to the rest of society. By exploring how non-governmental organizations, political parties, unions and social movements (notably the Zapatistas) engage with the state under neoliberalism, this work significantly emphasizes the continued relevance of corporatist structures in an environment of electoral democratic reform.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786465835
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	03/14/2012
Pages:	233
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Debra D. Chapman is a lecturer in political science, global studies and North American studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario. She is the author of articles on development theory and electoral movements in Mexico.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Abbreviations of Organizations and Interviewees xi

Preface 1

Introduction 9

1 Theoretical Framework 23

2 The Mexican Corporatist State 47

3 Integrative Oppositional Strategies I 76

4 Integrative Oppositional Strategies II 97

5 The Zapatista Movement 128

6 Experiments in Delinking and Deglobalization 158

Conclusions 170

Epilogue 176

Appendix: The Plan de Ayala 179

Notes 183

Bibliography 193

Index 209