When Bureaucrats Resist Illiberal Politicians: Cross-National Experimental Evidence

• In Event: Politics, Ethics, and Bureaucratic Decisionmaking

Brief Overview

In times of democratic backsliding, are bureaucrats willing to block illiberal policies? We address this question based on survey experiments conducted with civil servants in the US and the UK.

Authors

• João Victor Guedes-Neto, University of Pittsburgh

• B. Guy Peters, University of Pittsburgh