Neun Jahre PAN-Regierung in Mexiko: Von der passiven Revolution zur Krise der Hegemonie.

The implementation of neoliberalism in Mexico since 1982 has been described as a series of passive revolutions. Despite making minimal material concessions to subaltern groups, the neoliberal project succeeded in establishing a fragile basis of passive consent. However, this consent quickly showed first fractures, as was illustrated by the broad support for the Zapatista rebellion in 1994. In this context, the historic change of government in 2000 accelerated the breakdown of neoliberal stability resources and culminated in a plain hegemonic crisis which has persisted since 2003, a crisis which is also expressed by the early struggles for the search for a successor to President Vicente Fox and the use of electoral fraud as the ultimate means to secure conservative dominance. Due to their fragmentation, subaltern forces were not able to stimulate a significant change in dominant power relations. On the contrary, the victory of the PRI in the midterm elections of 2009, the outlines of an authoritarian and militarised state and the power of the television duopoly indicate a conservative solution to the crisis of neoliberal hegemony.