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Police Reform in Mexico: Informal Politics and the Challenge of Institutional Change

Police Reform in Mexico: Informal Politics and the Challenge of Institutional Change

Sabet, Daniel

Hardcover

General Political Science

ISBN10: 0804778655
ISBN13: 9780804778657
Publisher: Stanford Politics & Policy
Published: May 2 2012
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The urgent need to professionalize Mexican police has been recognized since the early 1990s, but despite even the most well-intentioned promises from elected officials and police chiefs, few gains have been made in improving police integrity.

Why have reform efforts in Mexico been largely unsuccessful? This book seeks to answer the question by focusing on Mexico's municipal police, which make up the largest percentage of the country's police forces. Indeed, organized crime presents a major obstacle to institutional change, with criminal groups killing hundreds of local police in recent years. Nonetheless, Daniel Sabet argues that the problems of Mexican policing are really problems of governance. He finds that reform has suffered from a number of policy design and implementation challenges. More importantly, the informal rules of Mexican politics have prevented the continuity of reform efforts across administrations, allowed patronage appointments to persist, and undermined anti-corruption efforts.

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