Suchergebnisse

A partir de la observacion de que la presencia tecnocratica en America Latina es centenaria y que la hegemonia neoliberal presente es solamente una version del fenomeno, este ensayo enfatiza la necesidad de disipar algunas de las confusiones generadas en el estudio de la tecnocracia en la region a traves de analisis historicos y comparados. El autor situa el caso de Mexico en relacion al resto de America Latina e identifica continuidades y diferencias entre la generacion de tecnocratas contemporaneos y las generaciones que los precedieron en los siglos XIX y XX. En este contexto resalta algunas de las condiciones generales que favorecen el poder de grupos tecnocraticos. (Pensam Iberoam/DÜI)

Camp reviews 'Democratizing Mexico, Public Opinion and Electoral Choices' by Jorge I. Dominguez and James A. McCann.

The Catholic clergy and the military have played crucial roles in Mexican history yet have been largely ignored in recent twentieth-cenury scholarship. The military received some attention in the early post-revolutionary period because it was intertwined with political leadership, but religious elites and the Catholic Church, which were separate from the state and suppressed by it, have not been analyzed. As a rule, cohesive leadership groups in Mexico with values differing from politicians, strong institutional structures, and autonomy from the state have rarely been examined, especially in relationship to the state and politics in general. Conversely, the greater a group's ties to the Mexican political establishment, as measured by exchanges between leadership, the more scholars have learned about that group. Whereas intellectuals, entrepreneurs, military officers, and even opposition politicians share some ties with the state, the Catholic Church has no direct links, and its contemporary leaders, goals, and institutional structures remain relatively unknown and little understood.