In developed countries when there is a change of government, such as in Japan, there are very few officials who are replaced, and where by the way the public sector is very small. At most they change the ministers and deputy ministers, equivalent to the secretaries and undersecretaries of state.
With the enormous difference that in the aforementioned country of the rising sun, there is a solid and rooted system of the Career Civil Service. Hence, the Japanese re-emerged as one of the most developed countries on the planet; since they rose from the ashes of the Second World War, after they were devastated by the atomic bombs that exploded on the towns of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The cultural, educational, technological development and the patriotic sense of the Japanese have a lot to do with this resurgence. This is in addition to the effective institutionalization of the Career Civil Service in the public sphere. This is deeply linked with the order of values of the Japanese people; in which the homeland is located first, then the public institutions, then the companies, then the family, and finally the individual “I”.
Here in Mexico, the values are located diametrically opposed to the aforementioned order; since in the facts first there is the “I”, and in the end the homeland is located from the point of view of the conduct displayed by the vast majority of public servants, especially by senior officials, taking into account that this has been the behavior observed in reality. This is affirmed by a comparative scientific study carried out by the National Institute of Public Administration (INAP), which I thoroughly examined in one of my many academic investigations.
In such a way that many phenomena can be explained or deduced from there, especially the ingrained behavior of numerous politicians and high-ranking officials of our country, including the not so high-ranking ones.
We observe this phenomenon every six-year or three-year term or in the circumstantial changes that occur in Mexico, whether in the National, State or Municipal Public Administration of our beloved country; since after an electoral process comes the distribution of the “spoils” of public power, as if the institutions were the property of individuals, groups or parties.
From where it is necessary to apply a state policy to modify that public behavior so ingrained and harmful that generates, among others, the loss of enormous financial resources in training; the inefficiency of the various public agencies, corruption and, in general, the slow pace of progress in the public sector; Therefore, we postulate the need to apply the aforementioned state policy in Mexico; and take into account, as a priority, academic merit, technical capacity, experience and proven honesty to select the best people as public servants, so that they have an adequate profile, and the culture of distribution is abandoned of the “loot” each six-year or triennium. In such a way that the criterion for the distribution of public power is not circumscribed only in favor of political groups and de facto powers, because they do a lot of damage and it is a very pernicious and harmful policy. It is necessary to be congruent between rhetoric and facts, especially when in reality there is not enough technical and scientific capacity; since there is too much tiredness of the citizenship throughout the country, and it is necessary to effectively institute the Career Civil Service. Not only in the form or in the speech, but also in the facts.
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