Inauguration of the XXXI Mexican Congress of Cardiology

Until the 1990s, the Mexican Congress functioned as a rubber-stamp institution whose main function was the approval of the presidents’ bills. The subordination of Congress to the executive branch produced, among other effects, the hindering of legislative policy analysis. Since government agencies had control over the policy process, it was not necessary for legislators neither to become policy specialists nor to invest resources and time in the development of professional staffs that could carry out policy analysis on diverse areas. However, as the process of democratization advanced, legislators started to create research centers and established civil service systems in order to professionalize the staff that supports legislative work. This chapter provides an assessment of the congressional policy analysis carried out in Mexico by focusing on the lower chamber (Chamber of Deputies) of the federal Congress. It argues that research centres and legislative committees perform three types of policy analysis. The limited functioning of the civil service system, the politicization of legislative staff, and low salaries are the main factors that undermine the quality of policy analysis in the Chamber of Deputies.

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PREFACE TO SPECIAL ISSUE: MEXICAN CONGRESS ON CHEMICAL REACTION ENGINEERING (MCCRE 2008)

Chemical Engineering Communications ◽

10.1080/00986440902834569 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 196 (10) ◽

pp. 1139-1139

Author(s):

Jorge Ancheyta

Keyword(s):

Chemical Reaction ◽

Reaction Engineering ◽

Special Issue ◽

Mexican Congress ◽

Chemical Reaction Engineering

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International-Mexican Congress on Chemical Reaction Engineering (IMCCRE 2016)

Fuel ◽

10.1016/j.fuel.2017.02.068 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 198 ◽

pp. 1-2

Author(s):

Jorge Ancheyta ◽

Gilbert F. Froment ◽

Muthanna Al-Dahhan

Keyword(s):

Chemical Reaction ◽

Reaction Engineering ◽

Mexican Congress ◽

Chemical Reaction Engineering

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2021 XXIII Robotics Mexican Congress (ComRob)

10.1109/comrob53312.2021 ◽

2021 ◽

Keyword(s):

Mexican Congress

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Mexico

From Baksheesh to Bribery ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190232399.003.0012 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 310-343

Author(s):

Andrew Boutros

Keyword(s):

Mexico City ◽

Service Providers ◽

Public Procurement ◽

Criminal Code ◽

Constitutional Amendment ◽

Public Officials ◽

Government Officials ◽

Full Force ◽

Mexican Congress ◽

Legal Entities

There have been significant changes to Mexican law recently that have provided prosecutors updated and enhanced tools to combat corruption. In May 2015, the Mexican Congress and the states approved a constitutional amendment that created the National Anti-Corruption System, which was put into full force and effect in 2017. This supplemented and broadened the already existing anti-corruption laws in Mexico’s public procurement process. Now individuals and legal entities can be criminally liable for bribery of public officials in Mexico. In November 2014, Mexico City passed modifications to the criminal code making bribery an offense that can be committed by both individuals and legal entities and created an innovative approach to calculating penalties against companies. However, even though laws have changed, much remains to be done. The OECD noted that Mexico has fully implemented very few of the recommendations that it has made to eradicate corruption. Mexico still had no prosecutions or convictions for foreign bribery. Corruption is still common in Mexico, with the widespread use of “gestores” or intermediaries to navigate the bureaucracies responsible for issuing licenses and permits, shell companies owned by family members of government officials seeking a bribe, fictitious service providers, and improper gifting and excessive hospitality to employees of state-owned entities. With the new Lopez Obrador Administration’s anti-corruption plan, further changes are anticipated in public procurement by the creation of a central mechanism to manage and monitor public contracts to achieve greater transparency. The new administration has also committed to creating an autonomous Special Prosecutor’s Office to independently investigate and prosecute corruption cases and to implement additional restrictions on entertainment and gifts provided to public officials.

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