Wed 4/22 7th

Beauracracy
There are career gov’t workers and not a whole lot more. It’s mainly about patron client system. The patron client system would correlate with a one party system or dominance, clear dominance by a political party. So we use the term patron-client, when we have China, Nigeria, based on pre dominance where Mexico is a one party system with an overwhelming patron client system referred to as their Camarillas. Patron-client builds to that pyramid that we talked about with Nigeria, with the client to a patron and the patron becomes a client to a higher patron and the system builds up. That’s what was in place in Mexico up until 2000 and has lost some steam there. A patron would not limit itself to one client and no client with just one patron. In Mexico’s case when we try to use to term camarilla, were talking about that vertical building of that pyramid. In the days of the dominate PRI then there was a lot of political competition between camarillas, you’d have two senior politicians competing for favors from the president or high level jobs in the gov’t, not only did they want those jobs but everyone else in their camarilla because they all want to move with benefits. Mexico in the days of PRI dominance when the president would leave in the end of 6 years and it would become a clean slate and the new president would come in. Loyalty is what holds a camarilla together. Some implications for political systems for this, if you have a strong patron-client system there is very little opportunity for a fresh, policy idea to come from the bottom and work its way up. There’s not going to be a lot of new guys coming in saying hey I have an idea, why don’t you pass this along to the top, and the reason being is that the client isn’t going to come in all new and stuff and do anything to offend the patron because they don’t want to risk losing their job. In a strong patron client system your policy ideas are going to come from the top and be pushed down. The other thing that can happen is that when you have this strong patron client system is that the people at the bottom are not going to be very creative they are going to be concerned that they do not offend the patron. What that means is that if they are working in gov’t office where they are meeting the public and the public is coming in with either requests or demands of something, in the patron client system if they are not comfortable they are going to say no to the citizen and do what they have to do for the client.
we're done! last test tomorrow =D