Transparency Reforms: Making Organizational Transparency Endogenous: Mexico's Case

Transparency reforms have become a recurrent feature of democratic political systems, but their implementation in public institutions still stands as an awkward challenge to surmount. In theory, the New Economic Institutionalism (NEI) suggests the need to create exogenous incentives and negative and positive stimuli affecting structures, processes, norms and organizational arrangements with the aim of redirecting individual and collective behavior towards transparency. Institutional incentives, however, have their own difficulties and tend to wear out, making them limited organizational change tools. This work is focused on 16 Mexican public organizations in conjunction with other factors - organizational and behavioral-which have a bearing on the coordination of an organizational-transparency policy.