Patrons and Clients in the Bureaucracy: Career Networks In Mexico

Abstract

As you know, we have an institution called the sexenio when everything changes. And we're here now for six years. You know how we all come in and get thrown out at the sexenio . If someone has a chief who is capable and has the prospects for a good future, then that person will probably think, “Perhaps I can go with him at the sexenio”; and it happens in reverse, too, if someone has a chief who is not particularly capable but who has influential friends, some will want to follow him. There are a lot of changes and it affects our program, especially when people stop working to pursue their futures.