Descripción:
Just as old democracies have the risk of becoming "tyrannies of majority", the new democracies are constantly in danger of being ungovernable. Institutions which are traditionally democratic, such as political parties and parliaments, have not helped to eliminate or at least to diminish those risks. They must either decide pragmatically what the majority wants or they lose themselves in the ideal goal of responding to the confusing and contradictory plurality. Do we have other alternatives besides these? Philippe Schmitter in1986 began to give us new hopes with his proposal of renovated corporativism as an alternative form of social representation. This paper attempts to be a proposal of institutional and organizational design. A model of social corporativism and a model of labor unionism for Mexico are proposed.