Abstract

CAMPERO CARDENAS, Gildardo Héctor. El bicentenario y la reforma del sector público en México. Los afanes de Sísifo. Convergencia [online]. 2009, vol.16, n.49, pp.347-371. ISSN 2448-5799.

In Mexico since its struggle for his independence there have been promoted administrative reforms and improvements. But neither has it advanced in reversing poverty nor social inequity. With such purpose, as from the 19th century successive programs of Administrative Reform, Structural Change, Modernization of the State, Modernization of the Administration, Innovation and Governmental Quality, Presidential Agenda of Good Government and Improvement of the Public Management, haven been tried without satisfactory results. There have been no advancement in reversing poverty, inequity and alienation. Mexico is a country with two uneven worlds: that of the rich and that of the poor. The Governance Indicators 2008 show that we are well below NAFTA, OCDE and some Latin American countries. In the recent report of the Corruption Perception Index 2008 we have not passed, with a grade of 3.6, in a scale from 0 to 10. As it has been indicated "other nations are doing a better job and they advance faster than Mexico", hindered by groups of interest, lack in agreement and other political factors, simulation of change and imitation of neomanagerial models. In countries such as Mexico the combat to poverty and the administrative reform are a lot more than a technical reform, they imply transforming the political frameworks of the State, such as control of class, and to pass from imitation to innovation. They demand for Political Ethics and governance in views of the general collective interest.

Keywords : bicentenary; inequality; bureaucracy; reform/simulation; political ethics.