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MUNOZ ARMENTA, Aldo. Mexican Corporatist Unionism and the Political Parties in Times of Electoral Alternation. Nueva antropol [online]. 2006, vol.20, n.66, pp.133-155. ISSN 0185-0636.

This work studies the political and institutional factors that allow the PRI (Party of the Institutionalized Revolution) to keep a corporatist relationship with the majority of the Mexican labor movement, despite the fact that since 1997 the Mexican political regime is democratic. The article establishes that the main parties opposed to the PRI, namely the PAN (National Action Party) and PRD (Party of the Democratic Revolution) have not been able to add to their numbers the organized labor movement because they don't have an organizational structure that allows for the inclusion of the labor movement agenda, or mechanisms for the insertion of union leaders to their respective leadership structures, and even less for the possibility of providing fixed spots for union leaders on their election tickets at the municipal, state and federal level, as has been the case with the PRI. Meanwhile, their party political programs are either foreign or contrary to the predominant unionist ideology.

Palavras-chave : corporatist relations; labor movement; political parties.