%0 Journal Article
%A Hernández Corrochano, David
%T Social capital and democracy in Mexico: the social limits of the political change
%D 2005
%@ 1534-7605
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/116392
%X It is widely held that Mexican civil society is a fundamental factor in the shift towards democracy in Latin America, in spite of its articulation from a structurally unequal society. The purpose of this article is to analyze that paradox through the concept of social capital. I illustrate the mal-distribution of this resource and the rules that regulate it under a segregationist mentality. This mentality affects quotidian relationships as much as the bonds of the social-political system, which underlines how Mexican society is a frame of unequal relationships characterized by a restricted flow of social capital that limits the quality of political change.
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