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The Role of Institutional Legitimacy in Facilitating Judicial Reforms: Examples from Mexico

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This chapter examines the role of the judiciary in keeping law and order in a community, specifically in regard to violence reduction. While most studies presume that a focus on institutional performance is the key to optimizing the judiciary’s ability to reduce violence, I offer a different approach and show that trust in the institution is the critical component. Drawing from Mexico’s 2438 municipalities, I utilize a zero-inflated negative binomial model to test whether institutional trust is a necessary precondition to reform. The results suggest institutional trust should be examined more closely in future reform initiatives.

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Notes

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    This count includes the Federal District.

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    I compared the results of a zero-inflated negative binomial model and negative binomial. The zero-inflated model was superior in regard to the Bayesian information criterion (BIC) and Vuong test.

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    I also included a measure of the number of police agents per municipality, but this variable was automatically dropped due to collinearity.

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    These were derived using the pr value command developed by J. Scott Long (see Long and Freese 2006).

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Stave, J. (2017). The Role of Institutional Legitimacy in Facilitating Judicial Reforms: Examples from Mexico. In: Viano, E. (eds) Cybercrime, Organized Crime, and Societal Responses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44501-4_17

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