Altos directivos públicos: Un nuevo conjunto de datos de miembros del servicio civil chileno

Abstract

Where do appointments based on political trust end and meritocratic recruitments begin? This question dates to the end of the nineteenth century and is linked to civil service systems’ modernisation processes in the twentieth century. The Chilean civil service has been an example of modernisation in Latin America over the past decades, however, the existing evidence is descriptive and mainly evaluates its coverage. There is no clear, systematic empirical evidence on its stability. This paper presents a novel data set of senior public managers in Chile during the 2009-2017 period. The focus of this methodological article is demonstrating how data mining and machine learning processes could be useful in order to create the data set and its potential applications. First, we present how we created and validated this data set. Then, we present some descriptive applications and nonparametric survival estimates with Kaplan-Meier curves. We hope that this data set will be a relevant resource for deepening understanding of the Chilean civil service and making different comparisons to extend this research line on political and government personnel.

Publication
Revista de Gestión Pública, IX(2), 151-169
Bastián González-Bustamante
Bastián González-Bustamante
Post-doctoral Researcher

Post-doctoral Researcher in Computational Social Science at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs at Leiden University, Netherlands.

Matías Astete
Matías Astete
Research Assistant

Research Assistant in the Management and Public Policies Department at the Faculty of Administration and Economics at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH).

Berenice Orvenes
Berenice Orvenes
Research Assistant

Research Assistant in the Management and Public Policies Department at the Faculty of Administration and Economics at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH).