The Role of the Citizen in the Political System: Access to Information and Political Participation in Mexico.

In Mexico, the political alternation of the year 2000 resulted in an opening of the political system that has allowed a greater involvement of citizens in it. The first opening of the system was the creation of laws on access to government information from 2003. The laws of transparency and access to information that have been created and reformed since 2003 have been the demand of citizens to know what his government does and does not do.
Under the basic premise of "more information, greater political participation", the opening of information from public entities was thought to encourage political participation by citizens in the same electoral processes. After 13 years of entry into force of the government transparency system, we can analyze whether citizens have been motivated to participate politically or the information and transparency themselves are not sufficient tools to empower the citizens of a country.
The main question of this work is: does free access to government information imply greater political participation of citizens? This paper aims to show the current state of citizen participation in the Mexican political system through the correlation of government information transparency with political participation in the four federal electoral processes from 2003 to 2015.

In the end, it is intended to show if what we have in Mexico are more participative citizens or if, on the contrary, there are still disinterested citizens of the public affairs of our country. Even when citizen participation in electoral processes is not a sufficient condition to speak of participatory citizens, it is a minimal condition that exists and does so overwhelmingly.