Preface 1. Introduction: Populists, Democratic Backsliding, and Public Administration - Michael W. Bauer, B. Guy Peters, Jon Pierre, Kutsal Yesilkagit, and Stefan Becker 2. Incomplete Democratization, System Transformation, and the Civil Service: A Case Study on the Weimar Republic and the Nazi Regime in Germany - Bastian Strobel and Sylvia Veit 3. Resilience Without Resistence: Public Administration Under Mutating Populisms in Office in Italy - Fabrizio Di Mascio, Alessandro Natalini, and Edoardo Ongaro 4. Illiberal Tranformation of Government Bureaucracy in a Fragile Democracy: The Case of Hungary - Gyorgy Hajnal and Zsolt Boda 5. Public Administration in Poland in the Times of Populist Drift - Stanislaw Mazur 6. Tchnocratic-Populist Mayors and Public Administration in Three European Cities - Eliska Dràpalová 7. Populism and the Deep State: The Attack on Public Service Under Trump - Donald Moynihan 8. "Doublespeak Populism" and Public Administration: The Case of Mexico - Mauricio I. Dussauge-Laguna 9. Venezuela: Sidelining Public Administration Under a Revolutionary-Populist Regime - Wolfgang Muno and Héctor Briceño 10. Working, Shirking and Sabotage in Times of Democratic Backsliding: An Experimental Study in Brazil - João Victor Guedes-Neto and B. Guy Peters 11. Public Administration: How to Respond to Populism and Democratic Backsliding - Gerry Stoker 12. Conclusions: Public Administration Under the Rule of Democratic Backsliders - Jon Pierre, B. Guy Peters, Michael W. Bauer, Stefan Becker, and Kutsal Yesilkagit References Index