Authoritarian drift, variegated paths : mapping administrative transformation strategies under illiberal rule

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dc.contributor.authorBAUER, Michael W.
dc.date.accessioned2025-09-16T13:26:04Z
dc.date.available2025-09-16T13:26:04Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.descriptionPublished online: 16 September 2025
dc.description.abstractThis article develops a typology of illiberal rule by identifying four distinct models of administrative transformation: neoauthoritarian, neopatrimonial, neoreactionary, and neoclientelist. Drawing on cases including Viktor Orbán, Donald Trump, Javier Milei, and Andrés Manuel López Obrador, it argues that illiberal leaders reshape bureaucracies through diverse strategies of control, each rooted in specific conceptions of the state and particular modes of bureaucratic design. In light of the varying illiberal trajectories, the article concludes by proposing differentiated reform strategies tailored to the specific threats posed by each variant of illiberal rule, aiming to bolster bureaucratic resilience accordingly. The analysis calls for a reorientation of public administration theory—from a focus on compliance to a normative conception of civil servants as stewards of democratic order.
dc.description.sponsorshipThis article was published Open Access with the support from the EUI Library through the CRUI - Wiley Transformative Agreement (2024-2027)
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dc.identifier.citationPublic administration review, 2025, OnlineFirst
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/puar.70028
dc.identifier.issn1540-6210
dc.identifier.issn0033-3352
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/93674
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWiley
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dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.licenseAttribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectDemocratic backsliding
dc.subjectIlliberalism
dc.subjectLiberal bureaucracy
dc.subjectPopulism
dc.titleAuthoritarian drift, variegated paths : mapping administrative transformation strategies under illiberal rule
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