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VAZQUEZ HERNANDEZ, Manuel. Municipal transparency and accountability: The case of the municipalities of Michoacan, Mexico. Estud. derecho inf. [online]. 2023, n.15, pp.55-84.  Epub 08-Nov-2024. ISSN 2594-0082.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iij.25940082e.2023.15.17471.

The objective of this study is to determine the level of transparency and accountability in the municipalities of the state of Michoacán. The methodology used consists of a quantitative analysis based on the processing of information derived from the National Census of Municipal Governments and Territorial Districts of Mexico City 2019 of the National Institute of Statistics and Geography. The main results show that 0.9% of the municipalities have a very low transparency and accountability index, while 17.3% have a low index; besides, 34.5% have a regular index; also, 43.6% have a high index, and only 3.6% of the municipalities have a very high index. On average, the transparency and accountability index for Michoacán’s municipalities as a whole is 58.42%, which shows the limitations, deficiencies and lags in municipal institutional capacities in this field.

Palabras llave : Transparency; accountability; access to information; municipality; transparency metrics.

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