The Bureaucratic Roots of Bribery: Understanding Citizen Bribery Through Longitudinal Evidence on Bureaucratic Interactions in Mexico

• In Event: Governance at the Margins: Informality and Urban Politics in the Global South

Brief Overview

Using a decade of Mexican surveys, this study shows how bureaucratic design—frequency, complexity, and necessity of procedures—drives citizens’ decisions to bribe, shifting focus from individual traits to institutional structures.

Author

• Tesalia Elisa Rizzo Reyes, University of California, Merced