Social change in Mexico: re-politicizing the agenda of reform

Montiel, Héctor Cuadra

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“…Brand new priorities focused on political stability and growth. The strategically selected preferences of democratization, political autonomy, decentralization, and federalism have accounted for a deconcentration and disaggregation of political power while emphasizing external market-oriented economic imperatives such as the liberalization of trade and divestiture of public enterprises (Cuadra-Montiel, 2009). These phases represent an upward movement along the "y" axis in the Figure 2.…”

Section: State Power and Market In Mexicomentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Typical of authoritarianism, after the president, the Partido Revolucionario Institucional, the former ruling "official" party, served as an incestuous politico-bureaucratic link between sectors of society and the government (Cuadra-Montiel, 2009;Medina Peña, 1995). During the first phase of the corporatist stage, social demands were incorporated into the system.…”

Section: Corporatism: State Power Punctuated Evolutionary Reformismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Gonz alez Casanova argues that democracy must feature fair sharing of income, culture, and power. According to this broader criterion, the democratic goal is still far from being fully realized (Cuadra Montiel, 2009).…”

Section: Power Autonomy and The Imposition Of A New Trajectory Since mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Power, State, and Market in Mexico: A Polanyian Critique

Cuadra-Montiel¹

2016

Latin American Policy

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This article offers a theoretical process-tracing exercise on the interaction between power, the state, and the market. Special attention is placed on how the historical trajectory of the state's political and economic developments has varied. The account developed is theoretically informed and illustrated by Mexico's trajectories of reform. The current trends toward the recommodification of economic activities and the roles of the state are developing tendencies, not exempt from undertows. Although social, political, and economic contradictions are mediated through crises, they are sorted in two broad and distinctive ways. In the first of these, major changes involve a decisive intervention of the state in which a new trajectory might be imposed, whereas in the second one, adaptation and reformist strategies solve and negotiate some minor moments of crises in the pursuit of softer transformations. Although corporatism and import substitution industrialization involved processes of decommodification of economic activities, the outward-oriented economic model meant a modification of the state's trajectory toward practices associated with processes of recommodification.Este art ıculo es un ejercicio te orico sobre la interacci on entre el Estado y el mercado. Se presta especial atenci on a la forma en que ha variado la trayectoria hist orica de la evoluci on pol ıtica y econ omica del Estado. El desarrollo te orico del trabajo es ilustrado por las trayectorias de reforma en M exico. Las tendencias actuales hacia la (re)mercantilizaci on tanto de las actividades econ omicas como el papel del Estado est an desarrollando tendencias que no est an exentas de contratendencias. Las altas contradicciones sociales, pol ıticas y econ omicas son mediadas a trav es de crisis que se clasifican en dos formas generales y distintivas. En la primera de ellas, el cambio mayor sugiere una intervenci on del Estado en el cual una nueva trayectoria se impone; mientras que en el segundo, algunos momentos de menor importancia de las crisis son solventados y negociados en la b usqueda de transformaciones, mediante adaptaci on y estrategias reformistas. Esta aportaci on neo-Polanyiana construye sobre la base de conceptos desarrollados para la comprensi on del desarrollo del Estado en Europa, y se ilustra con referencia a la experiencia mexicana contempor anea. Si bien el corporativismo y la industrializaci on de sustituci on de importaciones implican procesos de des-mercantilizaci on de las actividades econ omicas, el modelo econ omico orientado hacia el exterior signific o una modificaci on de la trayectoria del Estado hacia las pr acticas asociadas a los procesos de remercantilizaci on.

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Section: State Power and Market In Mexicomentioning

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Section: Corporatism: State Power Punctuated Evolutionary Reformismmentioning

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Power, State, and Market in Mexico: A Polanyian Critique

Cuadra-Montiel¹

2016

Latin American Policy

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“…We need to think of alternatives to replace the current import-prone export-oriented strategy. Alternatives which encourage a proper articulation between domestic and external markets, and where the endogenous conditions deliver more equitable rates of growth and development for the population needs must be considered more seriously than they have been so far (Cuadra-Montiel, 2009 and2011).…”

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“…Needless to say, this is a great deficiency of the economic restructuring which has even been praised beyond the country's borders. Adopting a middle to long-term perspective, the re-evaluation of the economic guidelines which have led the outwardly oriented economic model would take the form of a more inclusive socially oriented agenda (Cuadra-Montiel, 2009). For this to happen, the recognition that economic activities are socially embedded remains crucial, as is the acknowledgement of its contingent and open ended character.…”

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Globalization and Re-Commodification in Mexico

Cuadra-Montiel¹

2012

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Consenso y pos-consenso de Washington: dos generaciones de reformas incompletas

Montiel

2013

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La dimensión perdida de las reformas emprendidas tanto por el énfasis macro-económico del Consenso de Washington, como por el tenor institucional del pos-Consenso radica en lo político y lo social. La pretensión de armonización de ambas generaciones de reformas ha fallado en reconocer la centralidad política de los actores en los procesos en los que toman parte activa, ignorando el carácter intencional, contingente e impredecible que logran imprimirle.

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Social change in Mexico: re-politicizing the agenda of reform

Cited by 4 publications

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Power, State, and Market in Mexico: A Polanyian Critique

Power, State, and Market in Mexico: A Polanyian Critique

Globalization and Re-Commodification in Mexico

Consenso y pos-consenso de Washington: dos generaciones de reformas incompletas

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