Transnational State Elites and the Neoliberal Project in Mexico

Salas Porras Alejandra ()
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Salas Porras Alejandra: Department of FCPyS, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, BÚHOS 33, COL. LOMAS GPE, 33, 01720, Mexico City, Mexico

New Global Studies, 2021, vol. 15, issue 1, 23-46

Abstract: This article explores the connection between the emergence of transnational state elites and the construction of a neoliberal project in Mexico. It argues that transnationalization of Mexican state elites was part of the process that led to the adoption of a neoliberal project since the 1980s and that it entailed an increasingly greater participation in global networks as well as a greater affinity with the standards, practices and norms of transnational organizations and global technocrats. The process was very dynamic, and it unfolded through a set of reforms that gradually, but steadily, transformed the political economy from a state-centered to a market-centered political economy. It launched a group of neoliberal reformers to transnational spaces following a combination of paths that included: (1) interlocking with regional and global corporate networks; (2) participation in regional and global think tanks and policy making bodies; (3) a long and active trajectory in international organizations; and (4) an academic and professional career allowing them to become global experts, acknowledged by the global corporate, financial and technocratic communities as the most qualified and trustworthy negotiators and intermediaries.

Keywords: neoliberalism; transnational state elites; global corporate networks; intergovernmental networks; global experts; neoliberal project (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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