Nuevo patrón de legitimidad en América Latina

Aporías y soluciones

Abstract

In the seventies and eighties of the twentieth century Latin America attending the exhaustion of a command-obedience relationship supported by the protection which the State exercises over large sections of society. This imitation of the welfare state in the region allowed the formation of broad social alliances that-after the first signs of the global crisis and recession in the region were costly for the capital, which led to its dismantling and the search new bases of legitimacy, now around the citizen-and the vote, a process characterized as “transition to democracy”. Sooner than Expected to be a problem for the dominant with the emergence of governments that expressed an early re-articulation of forces popular. From these processes, and particular-Mexican solution, with the introduction of a new type of authoritarianism, tackles this work.