This article examines bureaucracies using a novel dataset of Chilean central government employees from 2006 to 2020. Unlike perception-based sources, this dataset provides objective, disaggregated, and longitudinal insights into bureaucrats’ characteristics and careers. The authors validate it against official employment statistics and conduct an exploratory and descriptive analysis, presenting six descriptive findings about the Chilean bureaucracy that cannot be discovered using available aggregate data. The analysis reveals significant degrees of personnel stability and professionalization in the civil service, but with considerable rigidity in careers and substantial interagency heterogeneity in turnover, wages, and exposure to political cycles. These findings suggest that the Chilean national bureaucracy is mostly well developed along Weberian lines, though not uniformly so. These measurements also serve as a benchmark for comparing other Latin American bureaucracies in the future.

本文使用 2006 年至 2020 年智利中央政府雇员的新数据集研究了官僚机构。与基于感知的来源不同，该数据集提供了对官僚特征和职业的客观、分解和纵向洞察。作者根据官方就业统计数据对其进行验证，并进行了探索性和描述性分析，提出了关于智利官僚机构的六个描述性发现，这些发现无法使用可用的汇总数据发现。分析显示，公务员队伍中人员的稳定性和专业化程度很高，但在职业生涯方面存在相当大的刚性，并且在人员流动率、工资和政治周期暴露方面存在很大的机构间异质性。这些发现表明，智利的国家官僚机构大多按照韦伯的路线发展良好，尽管并非完全相同。这些衡量标准也可以作为未来比较其他拉丁美洲官僚机构的基准。