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This research addresses the legal complexity of notaries public in Mexico as indirectly obligated subjects in matters of transparency and access to information. Although they are private individuals, they perform public functions, which creates a duality that makes it difficult to interpret their responsibilities under Article 6 of the Constitution and the criteria issued by the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation. To analyze this situation, 64 information requests were submitted in the country's 32 states. The results show a marked disparity in the recognition of notaries public as obligated subjects: only 19.35% of Government Secretariats and 10% of State Guarantor Bodies recognized them as such, while 29.03% of Secretariats and 80% of Guarantor Bodies did not. The study concludes by highlighting the need to harmonize notarial functions with respect for privacy and access to information. Furthermore, it raises as a future line of research the role that the local guarantor authority will play in the event of the disappearance of the INAI, that is, how state comptroller's offices will assume this task without backtracking on the guarantee of these fundamental rights.

Public procurement is a governmental instrument to obtain goods and services needed to fulfill public objectives. The Government has an obligation to be transparent and accountable for the way it employs public resources through these instruments. For over 20 years, there has been a worldwide trend to adopt electronic procurement procedures that promote competition, improve efficiency, ensure transparency and reduce the risk of corrupt behaviors. Using the Most Similar Systems Design (MSSD), this work compares the development of Mexico’s and Chile’s e-Procurement Systems, which despite having been created at the turn of the century, present different maturity levels.

Autonomous Constitutional Bodies are entities inscribed in the Mexican Constitution, whose function is to establish counterweights to political power and guarantee independence in key sectors for democracy and human rights. In 2021, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador presented an initiative that sought to reform COFECE, IFT, CRE, INAI, CNH, CONEVAL, INE and MEJOREDU because he believes that eliminating them would allow a reallocation of those resources in other sectors, would eliminate duplicities in administrative tasks and could be more monitored in terms of maximizing their results.

Organized crime and its various criminal manifestations are currently the main disintegrating force of the Mexican State. However, the legal, administrative, political, and social framework constructed by the Mexican government since the publication of the Federal Law Against Organized Crime has generated processes of over-bureaucratization, increased costs, and governmental inefficiency. This article proposes a reconceptualization of organized crime beyond the mereaggregation of undesirable behaviors, as well as a bureaucratic reorganization to streamline response processes through an integrated approach that encompasses three processes: prevention, reaction, and damage repair.

Critical Review, Salgado Remigio, Sofía, “Corrupción estructural. La teoría del doble fraude y las raíces de la impunidad en México”.  AKAL Mexico. ISBN 978-607-8898-49-7, 239 pages, by author Irma Eréndira Sandoval Ballesteros.

In recent years, the rise, relevance and dominance that artificial intelligence has acquired in various activities of our daily lives, begins to permeate within government institutions as a way to develop a better public management that allows the welfare of the population.

This paper reflects and raises concerns about the convergence, useful and necessary, between the public policiesand territory. The text is reflective and adds to the debate in the Mexican community about the trajectory and balanceof the disciplines of public policies. The document presents a methodological meeting between public policies andterritory in Mexico. To then highlight the importance of the territory in the study and analysis of public policies, tofinally close with the question of whether there is an approach, mixture or interdisciplinary perspective on this.

Megaprojects implementation is often complex and marked by unforeseen difficulties, particularly in cases where cost overruns and delays are common. However, the main challenges faced by these projects are not primarily technical but political, stemming from the centralization of implementation processes. To support this argument, I analyze a paradigmatic case: Mexico City’s Deep Outfalls System, developed between 1967 and 1975. This megaproject transitioned from a passive implementation phase characterized by slow progress to an active phase in which unanticipated obstacles were overcome and the project was ultimately completed. I argue that this shift was largely due to the centralization of its implementation process. As evidence, I draw on the meeting minutes of the Technical Supervisory Commission (COTESU) for the Deep Outfalls System—an unpublished source found in the Historical Archive of Mexico City—and analyze them using Social Network Analysis to assess the degree of centralization, understood as the extent to which one actor politically dominates among a set of involved stakeholders. My findings suggest that public policy implementers should establish formal or informal mechanisms of centralization to increase the likelihood of policy success.

Introduction: Violence against the elderly is a growing phenomenon, causing damage to health, with different outcomes and consequences to the victims. The possibility of elderly women suffering it in the family context surpasses that of men, with gender being a considerable risk factor. Objective: To analyze the understanding of violence against the elderly  according to elderly women. Method: Descriptive research with a qualitative approach developed with 22 elderly women from a community in the state of Paraíba, Brazil, chosen for convenience. The data collection was based on semi-structured interviews, processed by the Iramuteq software, with subsequent Content Analysis. Results: Five classes of violence against the elderly were evidenced: cycle of violence; support network for the elderly victims of violence; experience of violent situations; financial violence; and symbolism of violence in society, which denote an understanding of violence involving the different types. They are based on the factors of family experience, culture, and others, placing the health professional as a fundamental element for care and support. Gender influenced the perspective on physical and psychological violence, as well as the relevance given to health teams for the identification of occurrences and the prevention of possible damage. Conclusion: The various types of violence against the elderly have been recognized, including individual, community, and social factors in the violent cycle. In addition, they associated aging with greater susceptibility to suffering violence, regardless of the typology. It highlights the potential of the health service in assisting the elderly victim of violence, elucidating cases, and acting early to interrupt the cycles perpetrated, requiring the constant need for professional updating to deal with detected situations.

This paper analyzes the institutional design of the anticorruption policy of the Mexican State —since 2015 constitutional reform— has generated different effects at the subnational level of government. Although this scenario was expected, it is pertinent to ask: Why have institution building and policy-making—under the same concept of an anti-corruption system—taken different paths at the subnational level in Mexico? This paper discusses the relationship between the final effect and the invariability of the principles and values of political culture in Mexico. For this purpose, the methodology of process tracing and general data analysis of the National Survey of Government Quality and Impact (ENCIG) and the National Survey of Civic Culture (ENCUCI) is applied.