Meet the victim

Police corruption, violence, and political mobilization

Bibliographic Data

ID6263554
AuthorsAldo F Ponce (0000-0001-5049-3075, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas‐CIDE Mexico City Mexico City Mexico, corresponding author), Ma Fernanda Somuano (Colegio de Mexico‐COLMEX Mexico City Mexico), Rodrigo Velázquez López Velarde (0000-0003-2682-1803, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas‐CIDE Mexico City Mexico City Mexico)
Year2022
Volume35
Issue3
Pages887-907
Publication date2022-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGovernance (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0952-1895 • E-ISSN: 1468-0491
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/gove.12629
OpenAlexW3179707268
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited46

Recent literature has analyzed the relationship between governmental corruption and political behavior, focusing on voting turnout (Stockemer, LaMontagne, & Scruggs, 2013). Fewer studies have examined the impact of corruption on nonelectoral political participation. This article fills this gap by examining how nonelectoral political participation is influenced by corruption within one of the most important institutions dealing with citizens' welfare and safety: the police. We focus our research on Mexico because the effects of police corruption have been increasingly felt in the country in recent decades. We find that experiences of police corruption raise the likelihood of taking the streets to protest. Interestingly, we also find that corruption experiences specifically with police bureaucracies lead to greater likelihood of nonelectoral participation through institutional channels. We also report that the combination of police corruption and violent crime alienates citizens from the political sphere

Bureaucracy · Criminology · Language change · Political corruption · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Turnout · Voting · Corruption and Economic Development · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Law · Public Administration · Regulation and Compliance Studies

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