Addressing the tax asymmetries of public entities in the Mexican territory, opens several possibilities of studies, which includes the magnitude and incidence of imbalances of the functions that empower the tax authorities in the country. Currently, this problem is observed in the face of the...

This article analyzes the non compliance of the law in Latin America, particularly in Colombia. The core of the paper is the contrast between two different approaches: the strategic vision which argues that this failure is a consequence of the lack of institutional capacity to impose effective...

This paper criticizes multicausal and penal impunity explanations of violence and crime. It shows the analytical limits of identifying state and social institutional failure with objective causes of violence. But also highlights that impunity indicators cannot be confused with impunity itself....