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"Populism challenges our democracies. And populists in governments attempt to transform public administration systems in manifold illiberal ways. This chapter outlines an analytical frame for systematic comparative research on determining how populists attempt to convert public bureaucracies, what are their motivations, what are their chances to succeed. It bridges between different strands of scholarship, which have remained rather insulated so far. It complements the debate on system transformation and democracy systematically with administrative aspects. The chapter thus offers a path to integrate public administration scholarship in system transformation research by eliciting the role of bureaucracies in reform projects of populist governments"--

This volume shows how populists in government attempt to transform their public administrations to make them to an instrument of anti-liberal rule. It also offers avenues to make our democratic bureaucracies more resilient against the populist challenge.

"Populism challenges our democracies. And populists in governments attempt to transform public administration systems in manifold illiberal ways. This chapter outlines an analytical frame for systematic comparative research on determining how populists attempt to convert public bureaucracies, what are their motivations, what are their chances to succeed. It bridges between different strands of scholarship, which have remained rather insulated so far. It complements the debate on system transformation and democracy systematically with administrative aspects. The chapter thus offers a path to integrate public administration scholarship in system transformation research by eliciting the role of bureaucracies in reform projects of populist governments"--

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures, Tables and Boxes -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- 1 Why Elections? -- Political parties -- Functions of elections -- The turnout paradox -- Limitations of elections -- Recurring themes -- Voters, electorates, parties and party systems -- The axis of political competition and the median voter -- Representation -- Electoral change -- Topics -- Countries -- Institutional arrangements -- Voters and the puzzle of the ignorant electorate -- Plan of the book -- 2 Studying Elections, Parties and Voters -- The political context: party systems -- The institutional context -- Problems of parliamentary government -- Problems of presidential systems -- Government formation -- How elections condition coalition bargaining -- Institutional influences on the structure of political life -- Habits and routines -- Socialization, immunization and party identification -- Preferences and choice -- Institutional change -- 3 Electoral Institutions -- Free and fair elections -- Votes and outcomes -- Electoral rules -- Trade-offs in designing an electoral system -- Electoral reform -- Rules of the game for government formation -- The role of the voters -- The majoritarian and proportional visions -- Dispersed versus concentrated power -- Presidents and monarchs in parliamentary systems -- 4 Voters and Parties -- Party identification -- Age, immunization and generational differences -- Group loyalties -- The decline of cleavage politics -- The rise of issue voting -- Long-term changes in electoral competition -- Strategic considerations -- The role of the Prime Minister in parliamentary regimes -- Tactical voting -- Candidate evaluations -- Implications -- 5 Outcomes of Elections -- Consequences of electoral shifts -- Incumbency and term limits -- Accountability -- Fairness in election outcomes.

AbstractGovernment responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic in the Nordic states—Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden—exhibit similarities and differences. This article investigates the extent to which crisis policymaking diverges from normal policymakingwithinthe Nordic countries and whether variationsbetweenthe countries are associated with the role of expertise and the level of politicization. Government responses are analyzed in terms of governance arrangements and regulatory instruments. Findings demonstrate some deviation from normal policymakingwithinand considerable variationbetweenthe Nordic countries, as Denmark, Finland, and to some extent Norway exhibit similar patterns with hierarchical command and control governance arrangements, while Iceland, in some instances, resembles the case of Sweden, which has made use of network‐based governance. The article shows that the higher the influence of experts, the more likely it is that the governance arrangement will be network‐based.