This paper analyze the experience of Chile to verify the effectiveness of the implementation of its Public Management System (SADP) as an instrument to decrease the degree of politicization of the civil service. The analysis was developed with an exploratory approach. It has been shown that indeed the SADP in Chile has reached to combine the professionalism of the key sectors of the bureaucracy with the increased accountability of public workers to society and the political system, thereby achieving to decrease the politicization of the civil service. However, the analysis reveals certain weaknesses that could affect the realization of its proposed public value that require attention. Weaknesses such as: restrictions on the application of the organizational change management subsystem because of the rigidity of the regulatory framework; persistence of some clientelism features in performance management subsystem, which are rooted in the path dependence; and limits in the development management subsystem to encourage the performance and professional development, especially in the field of remuneration.
Rebollo, W. (2016). Depolitization of the public function: analysis of the effectiveness of the High Public Management System in the Republic of Chile. Journal Studies of Public Policy, 1(2), 48–65. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-6296.2015.38428
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