Research

Refereed Journal Articles

  1. Siciliano, M., E-Zhera, M., Gutiérrez-Meave, R., Deslatte, A., Krause, R. (2026). “Local Governance and Green Ties: Assessing the Relationship Between Functional and Institutional Collective Action.” State and Local Government Review.
  1. Gutiérrez-Meave, R., Zhang, S., Carr, J., Siciliano, M. (2025). “Integrating Formal and Relational Contracting: The Link Between Network Structure and Contract Design in Interlocal Collaboration Agreements.” Public Administration.
  1. Gutiérrez-Meave, R. (2024). “Advocacy Coalitions, Soft Power, and Policy Change in Mexican Electricity Policy: A Discourse Network Analysis.” Policy and Politics.
  1. Gutiérrez-Meave, R., Rosellón, J., Sarmiento, L. (2024). “Policy Reversals in Transitional Markets: The Effect of Changing Marginal-cost to Physical-order Dispatch in the Mexican Power Sector.” Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy.
  1. Massa, R., Fondevila, G., Gutiérrez-Meave, R., Bonilla, G. (2023). “Clandestine Dumpsites and Crime in Mexico City: Revisiting the Broken Windows Theory.” Crime & Delinquency.
  1. Bonilla, G., Gutiérrez-Meave, R. (2022). “Zoning Out Robbery? An Empirical Study in Mexico City.” Housing Policy Debate.

Book Chapters

  1. Rosellón, J., Núñez, H., Gutiérrez-Meave, R. (2025). “Entendiendo el rol de la infraestructura de transmisión eléctrica para la transición energética: modelos, principales desafíos y casos.” In Energía 2050 Vol. II, David Enríquez and Yolanda Villegas (eds.), Editorial Tirant Lo Blanch.
  1. Gutiérrez-Meave, R., Hancevic, P., Núñez, H., Rosellón, J. (2024). “Los efectos económicos de un proceso acelerado de electrificación y descarbonización en México.” In La economía mexicana: un balance desde la academia, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), División de Economía.

Other Publications

  1. Gutiérrez-Meave, R. (2024). “A book review of Tom Entwistle’s Public Management: A Research Overview.” Public Administration.
  1. Gutiérrez-Meave, R. (2022). “Framing and Decisions: The Punctuations of the Mexican Power Generation Policy Subsystem.” European Administrative Area: Integration and Resilience Dynamics, EU-PAIR 2022.

Funded Research

  1. Gutiérrez-Meave, R., Núñez, H., Rosellón, J. (2024). “The Economic Effects of an Accelerated Electrification and Decarbonization Process in Latin America.” Funded by CAF – Development Bank of Latin America. Research report.

Manuscripts Under Review

  1. Gutierrez-Meave, R., Siciliano, M., Carr, J., ”Stuck Together or Better Together? Rethinking Stability and Flexibility in Intergovernmental Collaboration Networks.” Invited to Revise and Resubmit.
  1. Massa, R., Gutierrez-Meave, R., Fondevila, G., Bonilla, G. “When Political Boundaries Become Liabilities: Metropolitan Fragmentation and Crime Convergence in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area.” Under review.
  1. Gutierrez-Meave, R., ”Why Reinvent the Wheel? Institutional Design Replication in Interlocal Collaboration.”
  1. Zhang, S., Gutierrez-Meave, R., Li, J., Carr, J. ”Selection-Based Accountability, Tie Strength, and Contract Design in Interlocal Service Agreements.”
  1. Gutierrez-Meave, R., Krause, R., M., Siciliano, M., Deslatte, A., E-Zhera, M., ”Beyond Single Instruments: Organizational Capabilities and Regional Collaboration in Local EV Policy Portfolios.”

Works in Progress

  1. Gutierrez-Meave, R., “Who Do You Learn From? Relational Experience and Network Exposure in the Replication of Interlocal Agreement Designs.”
  1. Gutierrez-Meave, R., “Borrowing from Neighbors? Spatial Patterns in the Replication of Interlocal Collaboration Agreements.”
  1. Ghasemizade, M., Gutierrez-Meave, R., Gramling, C., Chawla, A., Albrecht, K., & Lovato, J. “Making Local Government Contracts Legible: A Computational Pipeline for Classifying and Mapping Intergovernmental Service Agreements.”
  1. Sanchez, J., Gutierrez-Meave, R., Gaytan-Neri, E., ”Local governments and shared services: Insights on institutional mechanisms, partners, and purpose.”
  1. Gutierrez-Meave, R., Carr, J. Siciliano, M. “Beyond Relational Inertia: Exploration and Exploitation in Intergovernmental Contract Networks.”