AUTONOMOUS CONSTITUTIONAL ORGANIZATIONS IN MEXICO THE FRAGMENTED FOURTH POWER

Abstract

The figure of the Autonomous Constitutional Organizations (OCA), emerged in Mexico, within the framework of the establishment of the neoliberal model at the beginning of the eighties of the twentieth century. Although the emergence of the OCA is due to a decentralization and deconcentration of the Federal Public Administration, however, its origin protected in the constitutional text, endows it with the necessary elements that equates it to the same level of supremacy of the traditional powers, establishing itself as authentic counterweights, which pay for democracy, transparency and accountability. Based on the foregoing, it is proposed that OCA be recognized as a fourth atypical power, which has particularities such as being fragmented into various organisms.