The challenges of rural democratisation in Mexico
研究了1982年后经济危机和1988年大选压力下，墨西哥农村的社团主义和庇护主义组织弱化，农民运动发展出更民主的组织形式，但面临镇压、社会与政党脱节等障碍。
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