{"product_id":"police-reform-in-mexico-daniel-sabet-9780804778657","title":"Police Reform in Mexico: Informal Politics and the Challenge of Institutional Change","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe urgent need to professionalize Mexican police has been recognized since the early 1990s, but despite even the most well-intentioned promises from elected officials and police chiefs, few gains have been made in improving police integrity. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhy have reform efforts in Mexico been largely unsuccessful? This book seeks to answer the question by focusing on Mexico's municipal police, which make up the largest percentage of the country's police forces. Indeed, organized crime presents a major obstacle to institutional change, with criminal groups killing hundreds of local police in recent years. Nonetheless, Daniel Sabet argues that the problems of Mexican policing are really problems of governance. He finds that reform has suffered from a number of policy design and implementation challenges. More importantly, the informal rules of Mexican politics have prevented the continuity of reform efforts across administrations, allowed patronage appointments to persist, and undermined anti-corruption efforts. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlthough many advances have been made in Mexican policing, weak horizontal and vertical accountability mechanisms have failed to create sufficient incentives for institutional change. Citizens may represent the best hope for counterbalancing the toxic effects of organized crime and poor governance, but the ambivalent relationship between citizens and their police must be overcome to break the vicious cycle of corruption and ineffectiveness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel Sabet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804778655\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804778657\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford Politics and Policy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/02\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2012","brand":"Daniel Sabet","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43926232137983,"sku":"9780804778657","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_f8d9a08e-8890-4c57-8525-3823b713e7ab.jpg?v=1681081932","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/police-reform-in-mexico-daniel-sabet-9780804778657","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}