The Institutional design of anticorruption public policy and differentiated effects at the subnational level: an analysis from political culture in Mexico.

Abstract

This paper analyzes the institutional design of the anticorruption policy of the Mexican State —since 2015 constitutional reform— has generated different effects at the subnational level of government. Although this scenario was expected, it is pertinent to ask: Why have institution building and policy-making—under the same concept of an anti-corruption system—taken different paths at the subnational level in Mexico? This paper discusses the relationship between the final effect and the invariability of the principles and values of political culture in Mexico. For this purpose, the methodology of process tracing and general data analysis of the National Survey of Government Quality and Impact (ENCIG) and the National Survey of Civic Culture (ENCUCI) is applied.