In this episode, Professor Jos Raadschelders holds a thought-provoking conversation with Edwin O. Stene Distinguished Professor Chris Koliba of the University of Kansas about liberal democratic accountability standards and public administration.  Professor Koliba draws on past and present political and legal philosophies of liberalism and democracy to define a set of accountability standards and then relates these standards to conceptions of the politics-administration dichotomy, citizen engagement and network governance.  He calls for using these standards to assess democratic backsliding and as foundational for defending democratic institutions under fire globally.

To learn more, you can read the full article here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/puar.13831.