Fernando Nieto-Morales
Biographic Data
| ID | 4385161 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fernando Nieto-Morales |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fernando |
| FAMILY NAME | Nieto-Morales |
| SIGNATURE | NIETO-MORALES F |
| AFFILIATIONS | El Colegio de México |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4130-2745 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Making Transparency Work
Lessons From the Dissolution of Mexico's Information Commission
A much‐emulated information commission and a superstar within global transparency policy circles, Mexico's National Institute for Access to Information (the INAI) wielded practically unappealable decision‐making power over public information across the entire Mexican federation. In November 2024, the populist Morena regime formally dissolved the INAI. Looking beyond the tired tale of populist backsliding, the INAI's demise offers key lessons abou…
Resisting the tide
After years of austerity, rising populism, and declining trust in government, research on policy dismantling has grown. Recent discussions highlight the importance of resilience against dismantling. This article explores organizational routines as safeguards, arguing that they act as “dikes” that prevent dismantling. Focusing on Mexico’s open government policy post-2018, the study examines how routines have helped preserve key components despite …
Street-Level Bureaucracy in Weak State Institutions
Street-Level Bureaucracy in Weak State Institutions
Most research on street-level bureaucracy has historically been conducted in countries generally characterised by high levels of administrative capacity, professional bureaucracies, stable rules of law, and in industrialised and often liberal democratic societies. However, most of the world’s street-level bureaucrats work under very different social and institutional conditions. Politicised bureaucracies, low social trust in government, systemati…
Burdens, bribes, and bureaucrats
Bribery and other forms of petty corruption typically arise in bureaucratic encounters and are a common element of the everyday experience of the state in many countries, particularly in places with weak institutions. This type of corruption is especially troublesome because it creates direct costs for citizens when accessing services and benefits to which they are formally entitled. However, only a few studies deal with how situational attribute…
Parabureaucracy
In the context of limited state capacity and a politicized public administration, democratic backsliding tends to exploit preexisting deficiencies in the functioning of the public sector. Whereas staffing managerial positions with regime supporters is well‐documented, less attention has been paid to the structuring and staffing of street‐level bureaucracies under a spoils system. In this article, we use document analysis and in‐depth interviews t…
“Nobody wants to be a dead hero”
This study analyzes how adverse working conditions shape frontline workers' behavioral and cognitive coping mechanisms. It builds on the idea of frontline work as a precarious profession and explores how workers deal with associated challenges. Specifically, evidence is provided for factors associated with alienative commitment among frontline workers. We do so against the background of the 2020–2021 Mexican and Brazilian pandemic response by hea…
Human resource management as a tool to control corruption
Principal‐agent models of corruption control that emphasize rules, incentives, and sanctions as prime antecedents of corruption often stop short when evaluating how these general principles translate into concrete Human Resource Management (HRM) policies. Following a call to develop research about how day‐to‐day public management operations change incentives to be corrupt, we use data of 5.22 million USD audited to 545 local Mexican governments o…
Parabureaucracy
In the context of limited state capacity and a politicized public administration, democratic backsliding tends to exploit preexisting deficiencies in the functioning of the public sector. Whereas staffing managerial positions with regime supporters is well‐documented, less attention has been paid to the structuring and staffing of street‐level bureaucracies under a spoils system. In this article, we use document analysis and in‐depth interviews t…
Burdens, bribes, and bureaucrats
Bribery and other forms of petty corruption typically arise in bureaucratic encounters and are a common element of the everyday experience of the state in many countries, particularly in places with weak institutions. This type of corruption is especially troublesome because it creates direct costs for citizens when accessing services and benefits to which they are formally entitled. However, only a few studies deal with how situational attribute…
Human resource management as a tool to control corruption
Principal‐agent models of corruption control that emphasize rules, incentives, and sanctions as prime antecedents of corruption often stop short when evaluating how these general principles translate into concrete Human Resource Management (HRM) policies. Following a call to develop research about how day‐to‐day public management operations change incentives to be corrupt, we use data of 5.22 million USD audited to 545 local Mexican governments o…
Resisting the tide
After years of austerity, rising populism, and declining trust in government, research on policy dismantling has grown. Recent discussions highlight the importance of resilience against dismantling. This article explores organizational routines as safeguards, arguing that they act as “dikes” that prevent dismantling. Focusing on Mexico’s open government policy post-2018, the study examines how routines have helped preserve key components despite …
Lessons From the Dissolution of Mexico's Information Commission
A much‐emulated information commission and a superstar within global transparency policy circles, Mexico's National Institute for Access to Information (the INAI) wielded practically unappealable decision‐making power over public information across the entire Mexican federation. In November 2024, the populist Morena regime formally dissolved the INAI. Looking beyond the tired tale of populist backsliding, the INAI's demise offers key lessons abou…
Human resource management as a tool to control corruption
Principal‐agent models of corruption control that emphasize rules, incentives, and sanctions as prime antecedents of corruption often stop short when evaluating how these general principles translate into concrete Human Resource Management (HRM) policies. Following a call to develop research about how day‐to‐day public management operations change incentives to be corrupt, we use data of 5.22 million USD audited to 545 local Mexican governments o…
“Nobody wants to be a dead hero”
This study analyzes how adverse working conditions shape frontline workers' behavioral and cognitive coping mechanisms. It builds on the idea of frontline work as a precarious profession and explores how workers deal with associated challenges. Specifically, evidence is provided for factors associated with alienative commitment among frontline workers. We do so against the background of the 2020–2021 Mexican and Brazilian pandemic response by hea…
Street-Level Bureaucracy in Weak State Institutions
Street-Level Bureaucracy in Weak State Institutions
Most research on street-level bureaucracy has historically been conducted in countries generally characterised by high levels of administrative capacity, professional bureaucracies, stable rules of law, and in industrialised and often liberal democratic societies. However, most of the world’s street-level bureaucrats work under very different social and institutional conditions. Politicised bureaucracies, low social trust in government, systemati…
Burdens, bribes, and bureaucrats
Bribery and other forms of petty corruption typically arise in bureaucratic encounters and are a common element of the everyday experience of the state in many countries, particularly in places with weak institutions. This type of corruption is especially troublesome because it creates direct costs for citizens when accessing services and benefits to which they are formally entitled. However, only a few studies deal with how situational attribute…
Parabureaucracy
In the context of limited state capacity and a politicized public administration, democratic backsliding tends to exploit preexisting deficiencies in the functioning of the public sector. Whereas staffing managerial positions with regime supporters is well‐documented, less attention has been paid to the structuring and staffing of street‐level bureaucracies under a spoils system. In this article, we use document analysis and in‐depth interviews t…
Lessons From the Dissolution of Mexico's Information Commission
A much‐emulated information commission and a superstar within global transparency policy circles, Mexico's National Institute for Access to Information (the INAI) wielded practically unappealable decision‐making power over public information across the entire Mexican federation. In November 2024, the populist Morena regime formally dissolved the INAI. Looking beyond the tired tale of populist backsliding, the INAI's demise offers key lessons abou…
Resisting the tide
After years of austerity, rising populism, and declining trust in government, research on policy dismantling has grown. Recent discussions highlight the importance of resilience against dismantling. This article explores organizational routines as safeguards, arguing that they act as “dikes” that prevent dismantling. Focusing on Mexico’s open government policy post-2018, the study examines how routines have helped preserve key components despite …
Making Transparency Work
Political science (8 works) · Corruption and Economic Development (6 works) · Bureaucracy (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Local Government Finance and Decentralization (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Language change (3 works)