Public Administration and Political Science and its crisis as a profession in Mexico

Abstract

Public Administration and Political Science is a profession that has developed over the years as the main activity for the organization of public service within the State. Therefore, it is necessary to establish some important considerations within your professional practice from an international and national context. We will begin with the oldest antecedent of this profession when Public Administration as an academic exercise began in 1727 within the German universities of Halle and Frankfurt del Older, aiming at overcoming the limitations of the legal training of Prussian officials, by way of a totally new university career: Profession in Economy, Police and Cameralistics, destined to its preparation within the no less novel disciplines known as cameral sciences. Professors, professionals and students were called cameralists, and all of them demonstrated that, through university training, the quality of performance of officials could be raised and its visible impact was the rise of Prussia among the great powers of Europe. of his time. (Guerrero, 1995: XXIII)