Measuring Nepotism and Its Effects on The Mexican Public Institutions

衡量裙带关系及其对墨西哥公共机构的影响

• 批准号: 2613436
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: King's College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2613436
• 关键词: Measuring; Nepotism; Its; Effects; Mexican

This project aims to explore the association between nepotism and publicinstitutions' performance in the context of the Mexican public sector, andcontribute to the understanding of the effects of patronizing employment inLatin America. Emerging democracies face the challenge of building solidinstitutional frameworks capable of hiring efficient public servants that deliverpublic policies responding to societies and economies' current needs. Existingliterature identifies contradictory evidence about the association betweenpatronizing employment and public institutions' performance, claiming eitherpositive and negative effects on institutions. Moreover, the literature onnepotism has failed to link the concept of nepotism with the measurementeffectively. Empirical studies overlook this connotation and focus solely onpartially quantifying the concept. The first part of the project is conceptual andtheoretical, in which it is intended to understand the concept of nepotism andthe strengths and weaknesses of the different methods of measuring andoperationalizing it. This will enable the project to focus on empirically testingthe argument that public officials' appointments based on family relationships-instead of professional merit- could reduce public institutions' performance. Itest my hypotheses drawing on perception surveys and surname-basedmethods, and also on original data from the judiciary and the majority of thepublic institutions in Mexico.

该项目旨在探讨裙带关系与墨西哥公共部门公共机构绩效之间的关联，并有助于理解拉丁美洲庇护式就业的影响。新兴民主国家面临的挑战是建立坚实的体制框架，能够雇用高效率的公务员，执行符合社会和经济当前需求的公共政策。研究文献发现了关于庇护就业和公共机构绩效之间关联的相互矛盾的证据，声称对机构有积极和消极的影响。此外，有关裙带关系的文献未能将裙带关系的概念与测量有效地联系起来。实证研究忽视了这一内涵，只注重对概念的部分量化。该项目的第一部分是概念和理论部分，旨在了解裙带关系的概念以及衡量和实施裙带关系的不同方法的优缺点。这将使该项目能够集中精力从经验上检验基于家庭关系而不是专业能力任命公职人员会降低公共机构绩效的论点。它测试我的假设利用感知调查和姓氏为基础的方法，并从司法和大多数的墨西哥公共机构的原始数据。