Crisis del desarrollismo y transformacion del aparato estatal: Mexico 1970-1975
In: Revista mexicana de ciencias políticas y sociales, Band 21, Heft 82, S. 133-163
ISSN: 0185-1918
Mexico's new model of economic development aims at changing the state apparatus & promotes the growth of government bureaucracies. The new model is directed toward expanding Mexico's international connections & the hegemonic fraction of capital. Existing literature has indicated the state's function as arbitrator in the class struggle. In Mexico, beginning in 1970, the government bureaucracy has served to remodel the domination exercised by the ownership classes. Because the ownership classes are divided, the bureaucracy has constructed different political projects to solve the problem of the nation's economic growth. The meaning of the reorientation of Mexico's development model from 1970 to 1975 is explored. The new model was a response to the growing dependency on foreign capital before 1970, & aimed to reestablish the national autonomy of the state. However, while pursuing a Third World solution to development, Mexico's government apparatus reaffirmed its internal domination-not via the military, as in Brazil, but via an expansion of its bureaucracy. 1 Table. S. Whittle.