Public ethics, reputation and political legiti- macy of state bureaucracies
Abstract
This article examines the relationship between various currents in public ethics and the discussion on the political legitimacy of state bureaucracies. The issue has a normative character and can be formulated with the following question: can the reputation and trust that citizens place in a state agency serve as its source of legitimacy, even if the authorities of that agency are independent of political power? This problem or dilemma of ethics and political legitimacy was analyzed by Max Weber and continues to be posed with great force today, as illustrated by the broad debate and institutional conflict that has been occurring for about a decade around autonomous agencies in Mexico. This article analyzes this conflict from the perspective of public ethics and theories on political legitimacy, in order to draw conclusions on the conceptions of the State and public service in Latin America.
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