Mexico's Long Crisis

McCaughan, Edward J.

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“…The withdraw of the public sector and the corresponding stall in GDP growth (GDPPC decreased by 15% from 1982 to 1988) led to inflationary times with declines in real wages and a further drop in federal revenues (Brachet‐Marquez, , p. 1300). The woes accelerated as devaluations of the peso and the nationalization of the banks led to monetary flight and thus a repetition of the cycle as government officials continued to borrow more (McCaughan, , p. 16). Exaggerated governmental response to mobilizations of union members, peasant organizations, and university students stirred up general distrust in government.…”

Section: The Four Origin Stories Of the Industry In Mexicomentioning

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Bottled water in Mexico: The rise of a new access to water paradigm

Greene

2018

WIREs Water

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Providing a case of bottled water as the main source of drinking water for a nation, this article looks at the unfolding of this development in Mexico and locates it into the mainstream debate about how to achieve sustainable development goals (SDGs) Target 6.1: universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all. This is timely and relevant due to the 2017 amplification of the indicators defining access to improved sources of water to include the use of bottled water, under the broader category of “packaged water.” This signifies that populations that rely on bottled water as a complement to tap water, independent of the frequency and quality of this service, will be considered to have achieved the target. In only two decades, the phenomenon of bottled water has grown from a high‐end, niche consumer good to a global industry valued at $170 billion and climbing. The industry now stands poised to show how the private sector can be involved in achieving global targets, such as SDG 6.1, while earning large profits. In Mexico, 2017 estimates show 73% of the national population relies on bottled water as their unique source of drinking water, up from 61% in 2010. The article will trace the industry's history in Mexico rising out of an earthquake, a cholera epidemic, a financial crisis and the actions of the bottled water corporations. The profitability of this particular model of water delivery has attracted large‐scale investment by multinational food and beverage corporations and banks as well a recent explosion of small‐scale neighborhood water shops selling relatively small quantities of water. Today, this Mexican model is actively being replicated in other regions. Using a literature review and interviews with key informants from CONAGUA, Mexico's national water commission, the article traces four “lines of flight” of the origin and development of the bottled water industry in Mexico. The article reviews the current expansion of market actors and the published strategies of the dominant multinational corporations, to show the various configurations of the bottled water industry that are competing for the future of water delivery. The paper concludes by suggesting that the consequences of this trend deserve renewed examination by the water research community. This article is categorized under: Engineering Water > Planning Water Human Water > Water Governance

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Section: The Four Origin Stories Of the Industry In Mexicomentioning

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Bottled water in Mexico: The rise of a new access to water paradigm

Greene

2018

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“…The centralized national government focused on self‐dependence, import substitution and protecting nationalized industries. The financial crisis of the 1980s left Mexico under the dictates of global financial institutions, compelling the sale of state‐owned industries and the shift to a neoliberal model of governance (McCaughan, 1993: 16). The command economy ‘with the state as a businessman, now got out of the way for the businessmen’.…”

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“…Coinciding with a global slowdown, an era of high inflation in Mexico meant a decline in real wages and living standards from 1980 through 1992 (ibid. : 15; McCaughan, 1993: 17). Labour participation rates dropped from 74.6 per cent for men in 1973, to 68.6 per cent in 1983, taking the country more than a decade to recover (Fleck and Sorrentino, 1994: 11).…”

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Social Reproduction, Ecological Dispossession and Dependency: Life Beside the Río Santiago in Mexico

Greene¹,

Morvant‐Roux²

2020

Development and Change

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This article uses an integrated social reproduction theory (SRT) framework to highlight the interrelation between all non‐wage forms of survival, such as debt, community and the environment. The analysis demonstrates how Mexico's unregulated industrialization and social housing policies have created new forms of poverty and market dependency. The article relies on a comprehensive literature review and extensive fieldwork carried out in El Salto, one of Mexico's industrial peripheries, and shows how vulnerable populations become trapped, in this case on the banks of the Río Santiago, one of Mexico's most contaminated rivers. Parallel developments of industrial and housing policies contextualize the conditions unfolding throughout Mexico where populations are relocated to areas without adequate water and where drinking water is supplied by bottled water companies. This contribution highlights why an expanded SRT framework is valuable for understanding the relationship between ecological dispossession and the forced reliance on markets and debt.

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The Critical Juncture Concept’s Evolving Capacity to Explain Policy Change

Hogan¹

2019

European Policy Analysis

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This article examines the evolution of our understanding of the critical junctures concept. The concept finds its origins in historical intuitionalism, being employed in the context of path dependence to account for sudden and jarring institutional or policy changes. We argue that the concept and the literature surrounding it-now incorporating ideas, discourse, and agency-have gradually become more comprehensive and nuanced as historical institutionalism was followed by ideational historical institutionalism and constructivist and discursive institutionalism. The prime position of contingency has been supplanted by the role of ideas and agency in explaining critical junctures and other instances of less than transformative change. Consequently, the concept is now capable of providing more comprehensive explanations for policy change.KEY WORDS: Critical juncture, contingency, path dependence, ideas, policy 以不断演变的关键时刻概念解释政策变化本文考察了对关键时刻概念的理解所发生的演变。此概念起源于历史制度主义, 在路径依赖的背景下得以应用, 用于解释突发和不符合制度的变化或政策变化。笔者主张, 围绕此概念的相关概念和文献 (现包括观念, 话语和政府机构) 逐渐变得日益全面和复杂, 因为历史制度主义已延伸到观念历史制度主义 (ideational historical institutionalism) 和建构话语制度主义 (constructivist and discursive institutionalism)。偶发性所占的重要位置已被观念和政府机构所扮演的角色所取代, 用于解释关键时刻和其他略低于重大变化的时刻。结果则是, 关键时刻概念现能为政策变化提供更多全面性的解释。关键词: 关键时刻, 偶发性, 路径依赖, 观点, 政策 La capacidad evolutiva del concepto de coyuntura cr ıtica para explicar el cambio de pol ıtica Este art ıculo examina la evoluci on de nuestra comprensi on del concepto de coyunturas cr ıticas. El concepto encuentra sus or ıgenes en el institucionalismo hist orico, siendo empleado en el contexto de la dependencia de la trayectoria para explicar cambios institucionales o pol ıticos repentinos y discordantes. Argumentamos que el concepto y la literatura que lo rodea, que ahora incorpora ideas, discurso y agencia, se ha ido haciendo cada vez m as comprensivo y matizado a medida que el institucionalismo hist orico fue seguido por el institucionalismo hist orico ideacional y el institucionalismo constructivista y discursivo. La posici on principal de la contingencia ha sido suplantada por el 170

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Mexico's Long Crisis

Cited by 19 publications

References 2 publications

Bottled water in Mexico: The rise of a new access to water paradigm

Bottled water in Mexico: The rise of a new access to water paradigm

Social Reproduction, Ecological Dispossession and Dependency: Life Beside the Río Santiago in Mexico

The Critical Juncture Concept’s Evolving Capacity to Explain Policy Change

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