Paradoxes of Public Sector Reform: The Mexican Experience (2000-2007)

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  • Mauricio I. Dussauge Laguna

Abstract

During the last few years, many public sector reform efforts have taken place in Mexico. Without question, President Vicente Fox’s government (2000-2006) has been one of the most active administrative reformers in the history of our country (Pardo, 1991, 2007; Sánchez, 2006). The 2001-2006 National Program Against Corruption and for Transparency and Administrative Development (NPCT), and the Good Government Agenda (GGA) set a wide range of reform issues in the public sector agenda. These sought to change the structures, procedures and technologies of public organizations, as well as the behaviors and ethical standards of federal public servants. Besides, compared to previous modernization programs, it could be said that this six-year long reform agenda did not stay just as a collection of good wishes. On the contrary, during the last presidential term, numerous and diverse actions focused on building a more professional, honest, transparent, digitalized, and top-qualified government were implemented (Pardo, 2007). The question to be answered in the following years will be related to the adequacy and outcomes of these reform efforts.

Author Biography

Mauricio I. Dussauge Laguna

The author holds a B.A. in Public Administration from El Colegio de México, and a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. He is currently studying a MRes/Phd in Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science. During 2004-2007, he worked for six months as an external adviser to the Professional Civil Service Unit, and then two years as a civil servant at the Executive Secretariat of the Federal Interagency Commission for Transparency and Anti- Corruption (both at the Ministry of Public Administration of Mexico).

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Dussauge Laguna, M. I. (2014). Paradoxes of Public Sector Reform: The Mexican Experience (2000-2007). International Public Management Review, 9(1), 56–75. Retrieved from https://ipmr.net/index.php/ipmr/article/view/44

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Vol. 9 No. 1 (2008)

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