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Just a few weeks left to send your proposal for our Administrative Burden Workshop in Mexico City with, among others @fnietomorales.bsky.social and @donmoyn.bsky.social! See details below.

Falta un poco más de un mes para enviar sus propuestas al simposio ´Género, Políticas Públicas y Administración´ a la revista Gestión y Política Pública! @gypp-cide.bsky.social. Convocatoria: bit.ly/4qd80NL

Cargas administrativas complican el acceso real a servicios y beneficios públicos, y afectan disproportionalmente a ciudadanos vulnerables. Evidencia mexicana en nuestro nuevo artículo en la Revista Estado, Gobierno y Gestión Pública.
Leer: revistaeggp.uchile.cl/index.php/RE...

Convocatoria para el simposio 'Género, Políticas Públicas y Administración' en @gypp-cide.bsky.social Detalles: bit.ly/4qd80NL

Administrative Burdens as a Mechanism of Distributive Politics: How Organizational Brokers and Politicians Exploit Access Burdens to Social Housing in Mexico City This article presents a case study of Mexico City's social housing policy to expand our understanding of administrative burdens as a mechanism of political control over access to services and benefit...

Full paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We thereby integrate insights from PA and PoliSci: we need political science (clientelism) to explain the nature of policy implementation, while public policy (administrative burdens) is needed to understand why clientelism may be a dominant access mechanism to public services.

Our study shows how administrative burdens can play a crucial role in explaining clientelist practices: politicians exploit their leverage over long and uncertain waiting times and scarce access to social housing for their electoral benefit.

Most new projects are built in collaboration with social organizations who obtain building lots and permits. For each of these projects, the Social Housing Institute hands over 70-90% of apartments to organization members rather than to unaffiliated people on its own waiting list

Access to social housing is, therefore, competitive. The more connected and effective a social organization´s leader (broker) and the more politically active its members, the higher the chance of obtaining political favors and funding for ´their´ housing project.

In response, most citizens looking for social housing affiliate with social organizations that promise a reduction of waiting times in exchange for participation in collective protests and political proselytism to sway local authorities to give their members preferential access.

Social housing in Mexico City is a case of high demand and low supply: waiting times to obtain a social housing credit through the Social Housing Institute may be up to 12 years. There is, however, considerable political discretion in distributing funds and granting permissions.

Administrative burdens can be a powerful political weapon. To punish undesirable populations or policies by throwing up barriers. Or to reward politically loyal groups with privileged access. We study Mexico City´s social housing policy to exemplify the latter @govjournal.bsky.social:

Getting harder to welcome foreign scholars to the US, so we are going to them! Please share with researchers who might be interested in studying administrative burdens in Central or South America.

Workshop on administrative burdens in the Americas, October 28-30, 2026 in Mexico City. With @fnietomorales.bsky.social @donmoyn.bsky.social @thepeoplelab.bsky.social @elizabethlinos.bsky.social, Bloomberg Center, Colegio de México & CIDE. Support for travel costs available. CfP tinyurl.com/k2xz28fr

Exploring the influence of administrative capacities on administrative burdens Abstract. This research explores administrative capacities to explain the variation in the public’s experience of administrative burdens. Through a qualita

🎉 Exciting news! My latest paper has just been published in #JPART @jpart1991.bsky.social.

Titled “Exploring the Influence of Administrative Capacities on Administrative Burdens”

Click here to learn more: academic.oup.com/jpart/articl...

¡Ya salió nuestro libro Sobre la responsabilidad pública!
Distintas voces analizan qué implica ejercer responsabilidad en el servicio público y cómo se conecta con los retos de las democracias liberales.

Disponible en librerías, Amazon o libros.colmex.mx 📚

Just found out our article “Burdens, bribes, and bureaucrats” got an Honorable Mention for the 2025 Best Article Award from the PNP Division of the Academy of Management! 🎉

Thanks to everyone engaging with this line of work. It really means a lot. 🫶

...We analyze aspects of government automation that complicate equity and inclusion as well as propose mitigating mechanisms that can improve digital government equity and inclusion. We identify findings from the broader literature and the articles included in this special issue.

Digital government inclusion: Exploring strategies for inclusive government automation The idea of ‘digital government inclusion’ – which builds upon notions of digital and social equity – implies that every person is equally able to par…

In an introductory article, Susan Miller, Marc Schuilenburg, and I explore the concept of ‘digital government inclusion’: sciencedirect.com/science/arti....

Inclusion interrupted: Lessons from the making of a digital assistant by and for people with disability Participatory approaches including co-design are seen as a means to address some of the challenges digital government poses for people with disability…

Inclusion interrupted: Lessons from the making of a digital assistant by and for people with disability by Georgia van Toorn: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Exploring the potential and limits of digital tools for inclusive regulatory engagement with citizens Over the past decade, independent regulatory agencies like competition authorities, water and energy regulators have increasingly turned to citizen en…

Exploring the potential and limits of digital tools for inclusive regulatory engagement with citizens by Chris Townley and Christel Koop: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Open data work for empowered deliberative democracy: Findings from a living lab study Open government data have the potential to facilitate democratic debate and collaboration between government and citizens. This assumes that citizens …

Open data work for empowered deliberative democracy: Findings from a living lab study by Erna Ruijer, Carmen Dymanus, Erik-Jan van Kesteren, Laura Boeschoten, and Albert Meijer: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Promoting digital equality in co-production: The role of platform design Governments are increasingly using digital platforms to integrate citizens in public service delivery. However, research indicates that digital co-pro…

Promoting digital equality in co-production: The role of platform design by Pascale-Catherine Kirklies, Oliver Neumann, and Lisa Hohensinn: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Paradoxical digital inclusion: The mixed blessing of street-level intermediaries in reducing administrative burden This study draws on longitudinal qualitative data and insights from the literature on administrative burdens, street-level bureaucracy, and digital go…

Papers included in the special issue are:
Paradoxical digital inclusion: The mixed blessing of street-level intermediaries in reducing administrative burden by Mohammad Alshallaqi and Yaser Hasan Al-Mamary: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Seeking to move beyond entrenched debates, this special issue aims to shed light on the question: what technological, social, or organizational conditions can make digital government more inclusive?

As artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms are rapidly being included in the work of government, concerns are raised about the exclusionary mechanisms of digital government tools and about the discriminatory effects of algorithm-assisted decision-making.

New in Government Information Quarterly: a Special Issue on “Digital Government: Realizing the promise of inclusion”, edited by Susan Miller, Marc Schuilenburg, and myself: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Happy to see our chapter “Information Capacity and the Implementation of Social Programs in Latin America” with @gmocejudo.bsky.social and César Rentería in the Routledge Handbook on Crisis, Polycrisis, and Public Administration.

¿Cómo cambió la administración pública mexicana con AMLO?
Coordiné este número especial de Foro Internacional que analiza el sexenio desde una mirada crítica: empleo público, burocracia, recentralización, política social y más.

🔗 Acceso libre: colmex.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?...

Information infrastructures are highly cost efficient and able to reduce administrative burdens in most cases for citizens. However, they also complicate procedural lawfulness and organizational and democratic control. Mitigation mechanisms should be designed into infrastructures.