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  • The Business of Governing: Corruption and Informal Politics in Mexico City's Markets, 1946–1958

  • INGRID BLEYNAT
  • Journal:
    Journal of Latin American Studies / Volume 50 / Issue 2 / May 2018
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    14 August 2017, pp. 355-381
    Print publication:
    May 2018
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  • This paper uses corruption in Mexico City's markets as a lens to examine state–society relations and the construction of the PRI's hegemony in post-1946 Mexico. It presents three case studies that show how some ostensibly corrupt practices supported state functioning, while others contributed to the process of party building. It demonstrates that these practices were driven by shifting social dynamics and conflicts among vendors, which operated through networks of formal and informal power. Historicising corruption illuminates the strengths and weaknesses of the Mexican state as well as the balance between co-optation and popular demands that lay behind it in this period.