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PETERSEN CORTES, German. A Shocks and Punctuation Model of Anti-Corruption Reform: Evidence from Mexico. Gest. polít. pública [online]. 2020, vol.29, n.2, pp.295-319.  Epub 30-Abr-2021. ISSN 1405-1079.  https://doi.org/10.29265/gypp.v29i2.775.

How and why do anti-corruption reforms happen in countries with systemic corruption? This work builds on thirty years of historical evidence from Mexico to develop a model of anti-corruption reform. The three reforms under study -1982, 1995, and 2000- happened as episodic punctuations after long periods of stability in the anti-corruption sub-system. The reforms were a consequence of exogenous and endogenous shocks that induced the political elite to approve them. The work also stresses the importance that reforming anti-corruption institutions and policies in countries with systemic corruption might have, an understudied subject in the literature -due to the literature’s “structural bent”, that is, an excessive focus on the economic, political-economic, and democratic structures that contribute to the control of corruption.

Palabras llave : corruption; anti-corruption; institutional change; punctuated equilibrium; shocks; Mexico.

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