Conference
Old Tequila in a New Glass? The Role of Interest Groups After Corporatism; Implications for Mexico's 2006 elections
May 19, 2006
UCSD Campus - IRPS Dean's Conference Room (see directions below)
9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
Registration is requested for this event. If you plan on attending, please e-mail Carlet Altamirano at caaltamirano@ucsd.edu
The old corporatist Mexican organizations were a source of solid and indisputable support for the PRI. For decades, PRI-dominated unions, peasants, and business groups provided the ruling party with support in every state and federal election. However, since 2000 these organizations have been changing drastically to survive in post-PRI Mexico. In the context of the upcoming national elections, conference participants will analyze the possible consequences and different roles of some of Mexico's vital actors in this new post-corporatist era.
the three social groups of Mexican corporatism – worker, peasant and business – have dramatically changed their relationships with political parties. At the same time state governors, the main instruments for implementing corporatism under the PRI, are now divided among the three major parties. Will the breakdown of the once-famous PRI corporatist machine in itself affect the outcome of the July 2 presidential and congressional elections?
9:15 Introductory Remarks
9:30 Morning Panel: A New Relationship Between State and Society?
This panel will discuss how the different interest groups that once belonged to the old corporatist structures are inserting themselves in the new political arena. In particular, the objective is to discuss how the PRI’s former “pillar” organizations – rural and urban unions - are adapting or not. The discussion will focus on unions but also look at the role of the business sector, formerly a “silent partner” in government, but increasingly vocal since the 1980s.
Horacio Mackinlay, Department of Sociology, UAM-Ixtapalapa - Political changes in the rural sector during the Fox administration
Matilde Luna Ledesma, Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, UNAM - The role of the private sector in the process of political change in Mexico
James G. Samstad, University of South Carolina - Assessing the transformation of labor corporatism under Vicente Fox
12:00 Lunch in IRPS courtyard provided for registered attendees
1:15 Afternoon Panel: State Governors Adjust to Political Mobilization After the Era of PRI Hegemony
A discussion of the impact of state politics on the July 2 presidential election considering the evolving relationship between governors and national politics since the end of the PRI’s monopoly. The idea is to trace the issue focusing on the three main political parties.
Kathleen Bruhn, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara - Old habits die hard: Clientelism and patronage in PRD
Víctor Alejandro Espinoza Valle, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte - Gobiernos Subnacionales. ¿Del presidencialismo al corporativismo azul?
Joy Langston Hawkes, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica, Mexico City- Whither PRI governor relations with the state
3:15 Concluding discussion
Note: at 4:00 Baja California Governor Eugene Elorduy will be speaking at the UCSD Faculty Club
The event is open to the public, but free registration is requested. To register, e-mail Carlet Altamirano at caaltamirano@ucsd.edu
Directions to the Event
From Interstate 5, exit on Genesee Avenue, westbound.
Turn left on North Torrey Pines Road.
Turn left on Pangea Drive into the UCSD campus.
Turn left into the Pangea Parking Structure and proceed to metered parking spots on the top level (the cost is 25 cents for 15 minutes with a two-hour maximum). As an alternative, you may purchase an all-day parking pass for $6.00 at the information kiosk on Northpoint Drive located .5 miles north of Pangea Drive.
Walk out of the Pangea Parking Structure toward Pangea Drive.
Turn left and walk east up Pangea Drive past the stop sign on North Scholars Drive. Continue walking east (uphill); the name of the street becomes Thurgood Marshall Road.
Turn left on the first street (International Lane).
Enter the sand-colored complex of the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IRPS).
From the circular central plaza the Dean's offices are up the stairs and to the left.
The conference room is to the left as you enter the Dean's offices.
Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, UCSD, 9500 Gilman Drive, #0510, La Jolla, CA 92093-0510, Tel. 858.534-4503, Fax 858.534.6447, usmex@ucsd.edu, http://usmex.ucsd.edu/.
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