ABSTRACT
This chapter identifies the consequences of the inherited political culture in the community so as to grasp the functioning of neoliberal governance. Clienteles have founded a sort of parallel state, with their own rules, hierarchies, locus and channels by which they subsist and reproduce. Democracy follows a pact between elite members who are part of a network of power that sustains the precepts of neoliberal governance, where they alternate power via fraud, corruption and/or clienteles. Decentralisation nationalised informal power, ensuring the continuation of the inherited political culture. The Mexican political system is embedded with inherited relations of power, institutions, policies, corporations, class configurations and structure; and is based on corrupt and clientelist practices, allowing the 'banalizacion de la corrupcion. Politics within the community have become entangled with the inherited political culture in a way that facilitates the workings of neoliberal governance where exclusion, racism and fragmentation have been aggravated.
