The Guerrilla Government

One of the most interesting subject this semester its one named “The Public Administration and Political Phenomena”, in which we read a lot of texts of different topics related to the career, like the bureaucracy of Max Weber, the New Public Administration or the Open Government, but the one that I think was the most interesting was one related with the ethic in the public administration that talk about the “guerrilla governments”.

Now you’re probably asking yourself what I’m talking about? "Guerrilla government" is Rosemary O'Leary’s term for the actions of public workers who work against the wishes of their superiors, principally because they are dissatisfied with the actions of public organizations, programs or people and typically, for strategic reasons, they decide not to publicly express their annoyance. That is how these public workers, for many reasons, don’t follow the current within their institutions and perform actions that they consider correct even though they go against the instructions of their superiors.

Examples of this guerrilla governments are the case of Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomatic that lived in the Nazi Lithuania during world war II who clandestinely signed a lot of visas to save Jewish refugees or the case of Mark Felt, second in command in the FBI in the 70’s who secretly leads to reporters exposed the Watergate scandal that brought down Richard Nixon.

The previous examples demonstrate that sometimes the guerrilla governments are good in some occasions, because expose bad practices in the public administration or solve injustices that occur in the society.

Post graduates studies

 

The main reason of why I'm studying Public Administration it's because I want to work in the future as a diplomatic. I want to do this because will give me the opportunity to know other countries and cultures all over the world, but I just can´t finish the university degree and do it, first I must enter to the diplomatic academy so I need to postulate first, and in that competition the postgraduate’s studies are very important. For that reason, the last months I have been thinking a lot about which of these studies I would like to do, and I have two principally choices, a Master in Political Science and a Master in History.

For the first master, the Master in Political Science, my first option is to continue my studies in the institution where I'm now, The Instituto de Asuntos Publicos of the Universidad de Chile, because it has a program of continuity of studies so would be the better option to do it fast, but I also have other options like the Universidad Catolica or the Universidad de Santiago because I have heard that this universities have very good programs in the political science area.

In the case of the Master in History I'm not sure about what is the best choice, but I would really like to do it in other country, because I think that would give the chance to kwon other reality’s and points of view the history, besides the fact of let me travel and see other countries and cultures. If I choose this option I will need to think a lot about in what county I would do the master, specially taking into consideration that if I decide to do it in a country where doesn’t speak Spanish I must keep practicing my English to have with communication with my teachers and classmates.