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

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

🎉 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. 🫶

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?...

New from Arjan Widlak and me: A Theory of the Infrastructure-Level Bureaucracy. Our analysis of how intergovernmental data-exchange and information flows complicate procedural justice and democratic control. OPEN ACCESS @ Government Information Quarterly: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

How Information Capacity Shapes the Implementation of Social Programs in Latin America? Rik Peeters, César Rentería and I have a new chapter in the recently published Routledge Handbook on Crisis, Polycrisis, and Public Administration www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...