Abstract

HERNANDEZ, Gerardo. The security policy in Mexico between 2012 and 2018. From confrontation to crime prevention. Espiral (Guadalaj.) [online]. 2020, vol.27, n.77, pp.43-79.  Epub Feb 12, 2021. ISSN 1665-0565.  https://doi.org/10.32870/eees.v27i77.7082.

This article analyzes the crime prevention policy during the administration of Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018). Theories of New Institutionalism and Failures of Government are used to argue that the lack of results in the sexennium about the security policy was due to three fundamental factors:The problems inherent to the bureaucratic supply, the problems of implementation, and the political decentralization in the country. The conclusions are that such lack of results shows, on the one hand, the cooperation of subnational governments in priority policies of the central government, such as the approval of the so called structural reforms and, on the other, the lack of coordination about violence and insecurity, problems that ended up atomized at the end of the period.

Keywords : Public security; public policy; prevention of crime; New Institutionalism,Failures of Government..