TY - BOOK ID - 86135335 TI - Democratic backsliding and public administration PY - 2021 SN - 1009023500 9781009023504 1009021249 1316519384 9781009010412 9781316519387 1009010417 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Public administration. KW - Populism. KW - Bureaucracy. KW - Administrative agencies KW - Organizational change KW - Management. KW - Political aspects. KW - Change, Organizational KW - Organization development KW - Organizational development KW - Organizational innovation KW - Management KW - Organization KW - Manpower planning KW - Interorganizational relations KW - Political science KW - Public administration KW - Organizational sociology KW - Administration, Public KW - Delivery of government services KW - Government services, Delivery of KW - Public management KW - Public sector management KW - Administrative law KW - Decentralization in government KW - Local government KW - Public officers KW - Organizational change - Political aspects KW - Administrative agencies - Management KW - Bureaucracy KW - Populism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:86135335 AB - Liberal democracy is at risk. Its hallmark institutions - political pluralism, separation of powers, and rule of law-are coming under pressure, as authoritarian sentiment is growing around the globe. While liberal-democratic backsliding features prominently in social science scholarship, especially the branches concerned with political parties and political behavior, public administration research lags behind. However, without considering illiberal approaches towards the executive, efforts of actual and aspiring authoritarians remain only partly understood. State bureaucracies are, after all, important instruments of power. This timely and important volume addresses the administrative implications of liberal-democratic backsliding. It studies public administrations as objects and subjects in the context of illiberal dynamics. For this purpose, the volume brings together an international group of scholars to analyze authoritarian tendencies in several countries. The contributions combine theoretical with empirical work, providing the first comparative perspective on an overlooked aspect of one of the most important contemporary political trends. ER -