El patronazgo en los tiempos del sistema nacional de empleo público (SINEP) de la APN de la República Argentina. Nuevos escenarios de un lastre atávico

Abstract

The difficulties with which the attempts to introduce professional and meritocratic civil services in the National Public Administration (APN) of the Argentine Republic have historically met refer to the deep roots of patronage. But this phenomenon, due to its adaptive versatility to the different normative frameworks that have tried to regulate the entry to the APN in this country, has not been easy to face, nor to estimate, nor even to detect. The present work seeks to respond to this concern, in the scenario that opens the implementation of the competition system contemplated in the current (and main) public employment system of the Argentine APN (the SINEP). For this purpose, it proposes a new methodology, which investigates in a process of competitions in particular, trying to estimate the degree of openness of the public administration to the citizenship, and, by contrast, its level of patronage. As it emerges from this research, the open, competitive and meritocratic mechanisms of admission to public management in this area are still far from being fully valid.