Professionalization and Public Service Career in Mexico—Toward a Policy of Urgent State

At present, the problems facing the process of professionalization and the introduction of professional service career at the three levels of government in Mexico, in order to generalize the merit principle as the basis for entry into the civil service, continue coating a large complexity in addition to resistance from state and municipal governments. In this, it is argued that only through promoting a state policy on the matter involving stakeholders: federal, state, and municipal governments, institutions forming higher education cadres for politics and public administration at the institutions of national and state administration, specialists and civil society at the end, is how it can shape a policy that will lead to greater professionalism and performance of cadres to serve the government, given the challenges facing the country in the 21st century.