Abstract

GRAMMONT, Hubert C. de  and  MACKINLAY, Horacio. Peasant and Indigenous Social Organizations vis-à-vis Parties and the State, Mexico 1938-2006. Rev. Mex. Sociol [online]. 2006, vol.68, n.4, pp.693-729. ISSN 2594-0651.

This study analyzes the relations established by peasant and indigenous organizations with political parties and the state. It defines three types of relations: the subjection ofsocial organizations to political parties, corresponding to old-style corporatism, that of relative autonomy corresponding to electoral democracy and that of social organizations that reject political parties, corresponding to direct democracy. The authors conclude that the three visions are not compatible with each other and that the political matrix of Mexican society will depend on the relations of force established between them.

Keywords : matrix of society; corporatism; democratic transition; democracy; social organizations; political parties.

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