THE GENERAL ADMINISTRATION OF CUSTOMS AS AN INSTITUTION

Abstract

The General Administration of Customs in Mexico has gone through a process of modernization in its organizational structure, in the present work is looking, through the documentary analysis, to address different definitions of Customs and discuss the relevance of studying it from the institutionalism, arguing the existing correlation between institutions and the economic development of nations. Subsequently institutionalism is linked to governance and a comparative analysis is made between the theorized by Bandeira, Caballero, Dixit, North, and others, with some institutional features of the General Administration of Customs. Finally, the main obstacles are analyzed so that the institutional transformation that Customs has suffered in Mexico reaches the optimum institutionalism that generates development, focusing on corruption from the points of view theorized by Lambsdorff and Ramírez y López. It is concluded by urging to transform the customs political system in order to generate long-term policies, of greater technical rigor and focused on combating corruption