Structural Change and Neoliberalism in Mexico: Passive Revolution in the Global Political Economy
Author(s)
Morton, Adam David
Abstract
The history of Mexico is replete with the concept of passive revolution, situations where demands for change have resulted in the state accommodating some measure of change within the existing social order, perhaps by including new groups within the broader political system or process but without yielding any significant degree of control. The transition to a neoliberal economic strategy began in Mexico in the 1970’s and continued regardless of changes in the Mexican political landscape or the internal structure of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Even when the PRI lost power in 2000 to the National Action Party (PAN), movement toward neoliberalism continued, constituting an example of passive revolution as the forces demanding the change could not be ignored.
