ERC Advanced Grant · 2024
Democratic Administration under Illiberal Rule: Impact, Resistance, Resilience
LIBRAD investigates how populists in government reshape executive governance to implement illiberal policy changes. By covertly manipulating the machinery of government, populists erode pluralistic standards, reduce accountability, and politicize the civil service to advance their illiberal agenda. Bureaucrats play a crucial role in this context. Populists both fear them as potential saboteurs of their ambitions and simultaneously need to rely on them to push their agenda. To systematically examine the role of democratic bureaucracies when populists attempt to undermine liberal policymaking, LIBRAD analyses the performance and governance of populist governments at the subnational level in…
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