Abstract

GARRIDO DE SIERRA, Sebastián. The Education of Mexican Mandarins, 1970-2014. RMIE [online]. 2017, vol.22, n.72, pp.295-324. ISSN 1405-6666.

This research studies the link between universities and the federal bureaucratic elite in Mexico. Using a new database of the higher education of 1,448 public servants who filled a high position in the federal bureaucracy between 1970 and 2014, I analyze the academic training of these workers, and the place and discipline(s) they studied. The results reveal the constant decreased percentage of such government employees who did their undergraduate training at public institutions, particularly at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, the predomination of foreign institutions in graduate work, and the high concentration of disciplines these individuals studied.

Keywords : institutions of higher education; employment; professional trajectory; public administration; political power; Mexico.