The Institute presented a paper on “Old regime habits die hard: Institutional challenges to participatory governance in post-authoritarian Mexico” at the ECPR General Conference in Bordeaux, France (September). The paper presents findings from field research conducted in the context of the Institute’s two-year, EU funded research project on the linkages between corruption, governance and social accountability.

The latter research is conducted in support of the EU’s programme of work on “the Ethnographic Study of Corruption Practices” as part of larger EU multi-centre research programme, ANTICORRP.