Populist politics and the bureaucracy

Abstract

The rise of illiberal populist political parties around the world has increased threats to the independence of the bureaucracy. Recent empirical studies shed light on the strategies that populist parties employ to transform the bureaucracy and the mixed set of reactions from the bureaucracy to these strategies. The field is currently in need of studies that apply more systematic, theory-driven comparative perspectives on this phenomenon. This panel invites therefore papers to push further our insights in the effects of populism on political-administrative relationships. We especially welcome papers with a comparative (country-level, policy sector-level) research design.

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