Structure of Systemic Corruption

Oliver Meza is Associate Professor at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas’ (CIDE) Division of Public Administration (Mexico). He is mostly interested in local government’s policy agendas, local governance and corruption. Recently he has developed work around public officials’ noncompliance, citizen dissatisfaction, corruption consolidation, institutional logics and implementation frontline workers policy tactics. In 2020, he was awarded for his research by the Mexican Science Academy.Elizabeth Pérez-Chiqués is Assistant Professor at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas’ (CIDE) Division of Public Administration (Mexico). Her research agenda focuses on government corruption, public personnel management, and policy implementation. Recently, she has developed work on corruption consolidation, local corruption networks, informal personnel practices and street-level work in environments of systemic corruption.

• Introduction: Corruption Consolidation in Local Governments.- Intermittent networks of corruption in real estate developments in a Mexican municipality.- Organizational mechanisms to control the network.- The causes of opacity in local governments.- Fighting corruption intermittently: the role of the municipal comptroller's office’.- The geographical origins of corruption: A spatial analysis based on a geographical utility index.- The paths of corruption in Brazilian municipalities: where do they come from and where are they going?.- Corruption in local governments in Chile, investigating its conceptualization and the experience of inequality.- The case of Puerto Rico.- A Theory of Corruption Consolidation in Local Governments Around the World.