The Structure of Systemic Corruption: How Corruption Consolidates in Local Governments

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.