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Replication Data for: Mandates, Geography, and Networks: Diffusion of Criminal Procedure Reform in Mexico

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Title Replication Data for: Mandates, Geography, and Networks: Diffusion of Criminal Procedure Reform in Mexico
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/8W0PXP
 
Creator Ingram, Matthew
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Why have some Mexican states proceeded faster than others in the revolutionary transformation of overhauling criminal procedure? Contributing an original index of criminal procedure reform across Mexico's 32 states from 2002 to 2011 and building on existing research on policy diffusion, this article seeks to answer this question. It finds that the 2008 constitutional reform at the federal level exerts a strong positive effect (federal mandate); being situated in a neighborhood of states that have reformed has a counterintuitive negative effect (spatial proximity); and having a governor from the same party as governors of other states that have reformed has a positive influence (network affinity). These findings yield a better understanding of the vertical, cross-level and horizontal, cross-unit diffusion of reform, with implications for understanding how to overcome challenges to criminal justice reform in Mexico, Latin America, and elsewhere.
 
Subject Computer and Information Science
Law
Social Sciences
criminal procedure
spatial analysis
Mexico
diffusion
 
Contributor Ingram, Matthew