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Patrons and Clients in the Bureaucracy: Career Networks In Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2022

Merilee S. Grindle
Merilee S. Grindle*
Affiliation:
Wellesley College
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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.

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Research Article
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , 1977 , pp. 37 - 66
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Copyright © 1977 by the University of Texas Press

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This article has been adapted from a larger study of policy making and implementation processes in Mexico. A fuller discussion and elaboration will be found in chapters 2 and 3 of Bureaucrats, Politicians, and Peasants in Mexico: A Case Study in Public Policy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977). Field research was supported by the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies. The author benefitted from the helpful comments of Wayne Cornelius, Harvey Sapolsky, and Myron Weiner of MIT on an earlier version of this paper. An intellectual debt is owed to Anthony Leeds's seminal work on careers in Brazilian society (1965).

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