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.

d