An Innovative Combination of Neoliberalism and State Corporatism : the case of a locally based NGO in Mexico city
By: MAGAZINE, Roger
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ArticlePublisher: Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, November 2003Subject(s): NGOs; Street Children; Mexico; Neoliberalism; CorporatismThe Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science 590, p. 243-256Abstract: Nongovernmental organizations are frequently represented as the agents of international prganizations, slaves to a singular neoliberal development paradigm imposed from above. In this article, the author describes a locally based nongovernmental organization in Mexico City that eludes such critiques by innovatively combining aspects of neoliberalism with elements of state corporatism. In its effort to improve the lives of street children and impoverished families, the organization borrows from neoliberalism its distrust of govenmental and other potentially paternalistic institutions. Meanwhile, it rejects neoliberalism's reliance on the market and attempsts to empower families and communities to act as intermediaries between individuals and the ravages of global capitalism
Nongovernmental organizations are frequently represented as the agents of international prganizations, slaves to a singular neoliberal development paradigm imposed from above. In this article, the author describes a locally based nongovernmental organization in Mexico City that eludes such critiques by innovatively combining aspects of neoliberalism with elements of state corporatism. In its effort to improve the lives of street children and impoverished families, the organization borrows from neoliberalism its distrust of govenmental and other potentially paternalistic institutions. Meanwhile, it rejects neoliberalism's reliance on the market and attempsts to empower families and communities to act as intermediaries between individuals and the ravages of global capitalism
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