TY - JOUR A1 - Michel, Cynthia L. A1 - Meza, Oliver A1 - Cejudo, Guillermo T1 - Interacting institutional logics in policy implementation JF - Governance. An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions N2 - When more actors—politicians, bureaucrats, or citizens—get involved in the process of policy implementation, they bring different understanding of their roles and objectives as participants in the policy. These understandings are the means–ends relationships shaping actors' behavior during the implementation process, analyzed in the literature as institutional logics. How do these institutional logics interact during the process of implementation? We argue that institutional logics do not only seamlessly coexist, but they interact in diverse ways: they may coincide, complement, clash or be unrelated. To make these interactions empirically observable, we put forward a working definition for each of them. Using an in-depth case study of a participatory budget in Cananea, a municipality in northern Mexico, we show how the way these logics interact affects implementation: by performing their own role, actors advance their own purpose and contribute to the implementation process, even when they understand it differently. We find that the interaction among those logics do not impede effective implementation, as long as they do not clash. Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12596 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cejudo, Guillermo M. A1 - Michel, Cynthia L. T1 - Instruments for Policy Integration: How Policy Mixes Work Together JF - SAGE Open N2 - To effectively address complex problems, different policy instruments must be integrated into policy mixes. A crucial task for the policymaker is to identify the set of instruments to be deployed and to integrate them into a policy mix. However, policy instruments not only need to be coherent in their design; their implementation also requires instruments that create interdependence and preserve the integrated logic of the policy mix over time. In this paper we identify the instruments that make integration work. We argue that for policy mixes to solve complex problems, instruments that secure the continued interaction of its components are needed. We show that three instruments serve this purpose: a policy frame, authority, and information. We use three cases where governments have attempted to solve complex problems through policy integration to illustrate our argument. With this paper, we advance our understanding of how integration works and, by doing so, we inform decision-makers about the specific policy tools necessary to achieve it. KW - policy integration, policy mix, policy design, policy instruments, comparative public policy Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440211032161 ET - July 2021 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cejudo, Guillermo M. A1 - Michel, Cynthia L. A1 - Sobrino, Armando A1 - Vázquez, Marcela T1 - Observing and Measuring Government Openness. A conceptual discussion and application to Mexico JF - Gobernar: The Journal of Latin American Public Policy and Governance N2 - Open government has become a goal for countries all over the world, but it remains an elusive concept. Despite innovative methodologies to assess open government policies, action plans, and interventions in different countries, scholarly research and practical decisions are hindered by the lack of a precise concept and an operationalization. In this paper, we make two contributions to this discussion. First, we argue that the discussions about open government would benefit from taking the grammatical structure of the concept seriously (open is an adjective, government a noun). Second, we propose that, in order to be conceptually and practically useful, open government should be observable. We present the methodology, application and results of an effort to observe and measure open government in Mexico, based on a study of 908 government offices in terms of transparency and participation. KW - Open government, transparency, citizen participation, openness, measurement Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.22191/gobernar/vol2/iss1/1 VL - 2 IS - 1 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cejudo, Guillermo M. A1 - Michel, Cynthia L. T1 - Addressing fragmented government action: coordination, coherence, and integration JF - Policy Sciences N2 - Solving complex problems is a challenge faced by many governments. Academic and practical discussions on how to solve said problems look at policy integration as a solution to the negative implications that fragmented government actions have on addressing public problems or providing public services. Notwithstanding important recent contributions, we still lack a precise understanding of what policy integration is, an explanation of how it differs from other “solutions” to complex problems, such as coordination or policy coherence, and a practical operationalization. In this paper, we argue that coordination, coherence, and integration are related but substantively different concepts. We offer a new way of understanding and observing policy integration in a manner that is theoretically distinguishable from policy coordination and coherence and empirically observable. We argue that policy integration is the process of making strategic and administrative decisions aimed at solving a complex problem. Solving this complex problem is a goal that encompasses—but exceeds—the programs’ and agencies’ individual goals. In practical terms, it means that, at every moment of the policy process, there is a decision-making body making decisions based on a new logic—that of addressing a complex problem. Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-017-9281-5 VL - 50 SP - 745 EP - 767 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cejudo, Guillermo M. A1 - Michel, Cynthia L. T1 - Coherencia y políticas públicas. Metas, instrumentos y poblaciones objetivo JF - Gestión y Política Pública N2 - Public policies are a set of specific actions intended to solve concrete public problems. Given the specificity of the policy approach, its unit of analysis is the policy itself. This attribute may lead to a myopia problem: to focus on each public policy without studying the whole, or to believe that the set of public policies is, automatically, harmonious. Yet, a series of well-designed and implemented public policies is not equivalent to a set of complementary and self-reinforcing policies that solve complex public issues. In this paper, we analyze three levels of coherence for public policies: internal coherence (the causal theory), coherence among policies in the same policy domain, and coherence across policy domains. We show that internal coherence is not guarantee of external coherence. We use Mexican government programs to exemplify the consequence of incoherent policies. KW - policy coherence, policy domains, policy design, policy evaluation Y1 - 2016 UR - http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1405-10792016000100001 VL - 25 IS - 1 SP - 3 EP - 31 ER - TY - THES A1 - Michel, Cynthia L. T1 - Social policy expansion in Latin America amidst limited capacities N2 - . T3 - Dissertations submitted to the Hertie School - 01/2025 Y1 - 2025 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-56813 U6 - https://doi.org/10.48462/opus4-5681 N1 - The following paper has been published: III. Unraveling How Intermediary-Beneficiary Interaction Shapes Policy Expansion: The case of Paid Domestic Workers in Mexico • Published as: Michel, C. L. (2024). Unraveling how intermediary-beneficiary interaction shapes policy implementation. Regulation & Governance. https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.12592 N1 - shelfmark: 2025D001 + 2025D001+1 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Michel, Cynthia L. T1 - Unraveling how intermediary‐beneficiary interaction shapes policy implementation JF - Regulation & Governance N2 - As a result of policy growth, implementing agencies often face new mandates without the necessary capacity expansion to comply with, thus resorting to intermediaries. However, intermediaries are not innocuous to the implementation process, especially when they are expected to play the double role of target and intermediary, responsible for translating/interpreting regulation for beneficiaries. How does the interaction between beneficiaries and intermediaries‐target shape policy implementation? I argue that such interaction is not only determined by the role the intermediary adopts, and their relation with the beneficiary, but also by the motivations beneficiaries have for engaging in the regulatory process, and their capacity to do so. I develop a theoretical framework for understanding their interaction and apply it to a new regulatory policy in Mexico to provide social security for paid domestic workers. I explore the mechanisms by which the interaction between intermediaries and beneficiaries affects the outcome of the regulatory process. Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.12592 SN - 1748-5983 N1 - Open Access publication is funded by the Hertie School Library ER -