WHAT HAS GONE WRONG?: FINDINGS ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PUBLIC POLICIES FOR TRANSPARENCY STARTING FROM AN INSTRUMENTAL CASE

Abstract

What happens once a public decision is put into practice? The answer to this question lies in the field of public policy implementation, an area studied in a discontinuous manner over time. After a theoretical account, this article explores - starting from an instrumental case set in a Mexican subnational government which has implied bringing a legislative decision related to transparency to reality. Among the findings it is prominent situations of a political nature, agreements between groups and concentration of power in few actors, for example, as contributing elements to the gap between what was planned and executed.