Abstract
Under the pressure of the post‐1982 economic crisis and the highly contested 1988 national elections, corporatist and clientelist forms of social and political organisation have weakened significantly in rural Mexico. Through the development of new types of alliances and more democratic organisational forms, peasant movements have broadened and grown more autonomous from the state. The main obstacles to rural democratisation include intermittent repression, a continuing gap between social organisations and political parties, and contradictory elements in the official ‘modernisation’ project
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