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Mexico offers a striking example of the political challenges posed by globalization. While there are compelling pressures to undertake free market reforms, these reforms threaten the economic well-being of various social groups and provoke popular resistance. State elites have scrambled to devise strategies which preserve neoliberal adjustment without jeopardizing regime stability.
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Adams, F. (1999). Economic Reform and Political Turmoil in Mexico. In: Adams, F., Gupta, S.D., Mengisteab, K. (eds) Globalization and the Dilemmas of the State in the South. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230372603_6
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