Mauricio researches public policy and administration from an international / comparative perspective.
His work covers a variety of topics, including administrative reforms, policy transfer processes, bureaucratic politics, regulation in developing countries, and the impacts of populism on government institutions.
Patronage in the Mexican Public Sector
With Alberto Casas
in Francisco Panizza, B. Guy Peters & Conrado Ramos (eds.)
The Politics of Patronage Appointments in Latin American Central Administrations
Pittsburgh University Press, 2022, p141-171
Los fundamentos politico-administrativos de la regulaciĂłn: Una antologĂa
Edited with Martin Lodge
CIDE, 2022
Policy transfer strategies: How agents’ actions ensure lessons from abroad stick at home
in Tom Baker & Christopher Walker (eds.)
Public Policy Circulation
Edward Elgar, 2019, 144–160
The Challenges of Implementing Merit-Based Personnel Policies in Latin America: Mexico’s Civil Service Reform Experience
in Iris Geva-May, Guy Peters & Joselyn Muhleisen (eds.)
Classics of Comparative Policy Analysis
Routledge, vol. 3, 2019
Policy Analysis in Mexico
Edited with José Luis Méndez
Policy Press, 2017
Presidential policy narratives and the (mis) use of scientific expertise: Covid-19 policy responses in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico
With Alketa Peci & Camilo González
Policy Studies, 44 (1), 68–89, 2023
The promises and perils of populism for democratic policymaking: the case of Mexico
Policy Sciences, 55 (4), 777–803, 2022
