Anatomy of Urban Corruption: A Review of Official Corruption Complaints from a Mexican City

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dc.contributor.authorGrajales, Anaen_US
dc.contributor.authorLagunes, Paulen_US
dc.contributor.authorNazal, Tomasen_US
dc.contributor.orgJames A. Baker III Institute for Public Policyen_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-30T18:56:44Zen_US
dc.date.available2019-05-30T18:56:44Zen_US
dc.date.issued2018en_US
dc.descriptionThe authors examine aﾠunique and anonymized dataset of complaints about government corruption in an urban Mexico district. The trends they found are transferable to other urban districts across the country andﾠLatin America, they write, and may help anticorruption agencies inﾠMexico and beyond direct their efforts.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe people who partake in corruption have an incentive to hide their illicit behavior. This represents a strategic challenge to law enforcement officials across Latin American cities. A related concern is that formal claims submitted to a city's anti-corruption agency are seldom analyzed in a systematic manner. We respond to these challenges by examining a unique (and anonymized) dataset containing 445 claims collected by an urban district government in central Mexico. First, we propose a novel typology of urban corruption, which can later be applied to analyze corruption-related claims elsewhere. As a next step, we apply this typology to study the claims submitted to the district government in question. Large agencies and the agencies responsible for regulating the construction sector are found to be most vulnerable to corruption. The district as a whole also comes across as lacking in transparency and as struggling with bribery and kickback schemes.en_US
dc.identifier.citationGrajales, Ana, Lagunes, Paul and Nazal, Tomas. "Anatomy of Urban Corruption: A Review of Official Corruption Complaints from a Mexican City." (2018) James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy: https://doi.org/10.25613/cqgc-xv79.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/106078en_US
dc.publisherJames A. Baker III Institute for Public Policyen_US
dc.rightsThis material may be quoted or reproduced without prior permission, provided appropriate credit is given to the author and the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy.en_US
dc.titleAnatomy of Urban Corruption: A Review of Official Corruption Complaints from a Mexican Cityen_US
dc.typeResearch paperen_US
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