Bureaucrats Under Illiberal Rule. How Governments Subdue Bureaucrats and How They Fight Back

By Dániel G. Szabó Universal health care, the moon landing, restoring the ozone layer ‒ civil servants are capable of incredible things: universal health care in Europe is organised mainly by state-run hospitals; the NASA putting a man on the moon was a government agency; the frontline of mitigating the effects of climate change is very much within governments where the civil service drafts, implements, and supervises laws to protect people from floods and draughts. But total oppression and ...