In Terms of Its Impact on the Policy-Making Process, the Sexenio

question 33

Multiple Choice

In terms of its impact on the policy-making process, the sexenio

• A) makes the Mexican bureaucracy the focal point of policy formulation and the Mexican Congress the focal point of policy manager.
• B) makes policy innovation less likely since the Mexican President is a lame duck from the start of his term of office.
• C) traditionally makes the Mexican president the person most responsible for policy slippage.
• D) makes it easy for the Mexican president to introduce extensive personnel changes upon coming to office in order to build a team of people who are motivated to carry out his policy goals.
• E) made policy discontinuity impossible before 2000 due to the dominance of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and its ideology within the Mexican political system.