Mexican Public Sector Reform: Patrimonialist Values and Governmental Organisational Culture in Mexico

David Arellano Gault

International Review of Public Administration, 1999, vol. 4, issue 2, 67-77

Abstract: The transformation of public or governmental organisations has become a strategic issue for the “modernisation” of Mexico, according to conutry’s authorities. However, this “modernisation” project in public sector based on ideas stemming from the so called New Public Management (NPM), is facing several dilemmas to be implemented successfully. The main argument here is that in Mexico, the concepts of control and power are different from those embraced by countries that have generated the basic ideas of today’s managerial reforms (USA and Common-wealth countries). Following the track of an old Mexican institution, as old as at least Colonial times, patrimonialism, we can understand that the necessity of control of local or particular powers through a centralised one, and the permanent tension between these two, are the basic platform for individual and group behaviour.

Date: 1999
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