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Privatization required that reformers transform the social base of the Mexican state. This chapter examines how state officials manipulated the corporatist mechanisms of control to overcome labor opposition and incorporate (in some cases, reincorporate) workers and other groups alienated by adjustment. Particularly during Salinas’s sexeni, state elites reworked the PRI’s corporatist framework and manipulated the clientelist links between the state and labor leadership, on the one hand, and the union leadership and the rank and file, on the other, to insure labor docility and neutralize the challenge of the leftist Party of Democratic Revolution (PRD). Unlike Egypt, the Mexican regime benefited from the presence of several mass organizations, and the PRI’s cooptive capacity facilitated the control of these popular organizations.
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Aidi, H.D. (2009). Privatization and the Populist-Distributive Alliance. In: Redeploying the State. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230617902_5
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