@article{c7513873fcd5497a8b00857f9f3e1922,
title = "Bureaucratic compliance with Mexico's new access to information law",
abstract = "We analyze government document custodians' attitudes and behaviors in order to assess the prospects of a new access to information law establishing a citizen's right-to-know in Mexico. The Mexican law is considered one of the best in the hemisphere in terms of broad access and workable enforcement provisions. However, no extra resources were allotted to government agencies for compliance with the law; the country's traditional bureaucratic incentive structures support closure rather than access; and bureaucrats' views on the uses of government information prior to democratization suggest an instrumental approach guided organizational incentives rather than generalized support for either secrecy or access as a principle. We argue that missing or unclear political will at the top is the strongest challenge to Mexico's emerging right to know.",
keywords = "Accountability, Democratization, Freedom of Information, Institutional Analysis, Latin America, Mexico, Secrecy",
author = "Juliet Gill and Sallie Hughes",
note = "Funding Information: Juliet Gill is a doctoral student at the School of Communication, University of Miami. Sallie Hughes is an assistant professor in the Department of Journalism and Photography, School of Communication, University of Miami. Correspondence to: either author, PO Box 248127, Coral Gables, FL, 33124-2105, USA. Email: j.gill@umiami.edu; Email: shughes@miami.edu The authors gratefully acknowledge the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy, the University of Miami Provost Luis Glaser, UM School of Communication Dean Edward J. Pfister, and the UM Center for Latin American Studies for their support of the fieldwork. In addition to the participants in the study, they thank Roberto Rock, Victor Fuentes, Sigman Splichal, Roberto Dom{\'i}nguez, Elena Sabogal, Karen Guggenheim, Pedro Armendares, Martin I{\~n}egas, Ernesto Villanueva, Rosa Herrera, Ana Gabriela Rojas, and Yvette Bueno for their assistance. Finally, they thank Linda Steiner and two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments.",
year = "2005",
month = jun,
doi = "10.1080/07393180500072038",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "22",
pages = "121--137",
journal = "Critical Studies in Media Communication",
issn = "1529-5036",
publisher = "Routledge",
number = "2",
}