The current wave of populism, either from the left or the right, has a particularly strong and negative view of public administration, both seen as body of knowledge and as a governmental apparatus. In short, populist defend that public administration has become actually a defendant of the elites, a technocracy serving elitist interests. Public administration uses its technocratic jargon to hide from its only and simple responsibility: to resolve the people’s problems, which is assumed to be homogenous and different from the “elites”. The populist solution for an effective government of forcing a general agreement under the idea of homogenous “people’s needs” is not only misleading but also dangerous. Dangerous because accepting the importance of plurality has shown to be critical for protecting the always weak institutional framework that guards the liberty and rights of persons in any society.

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回应民粹主义对公共行政的攻击

当前的民粹主义浪潮，无论是左派还是右派，都对公共行政有特别强烈和消极的看法，既被视为知识体系，又被视为政府机构。简而言之，民粹主义者辩称公共行政实际上已经成为精英的捍卫者，而精英是为精英利益服务的技术专家。公共行政使用其技术专家的术语来掩饰其唯一和简单的责任：解决人民的问题，人们认为这些问题是同质的，不同于“精英”。在同质的“人民需要”的思想下，民粹主义的解决方案可以使一个有效的政府强制达成一项普遍协议，这不仅具有误导性，而且具有危险性。