How Cities Shape Bureaucracies: Rethinking Public Administration from Mexico City and São Paulo

• In Event: Fiscal Federalism and Local Capacity

Brief Overview

Large Latin American city bureaucracies differ from patronage-based portrayals, serving as sites of innovation shaped by skilled professionals, administrative specialization, and dense civil society interactions in policy implementation.

Authors

• Irene Farah, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• Marcela Alonso Ferreira, Sciences Po