IMPACT

The question of civil service responsibility and possible disobedience is of fundamental importance for the public sector, and the more government legitimacy is publicly doubted, the more relevant it becomes. The reaction of Myanmar civil servants via a large-scale, fundamental disobedience movement is noteworthy in its own right as a real-life case of what is possible, regionally in South-East Asia, and globally in that it renews and sharpens the question civil servants must continuously ask themselves regarding what their responsibility vis-à-vis government and citizens actually is.

ABSTRACT

Myanmar’s civil servants have responded to the February 2021 military coup with a resistance movement that seems globally unprecedented in intensity and scale. For the ongoing debate about responsibility, disobedience, and resistance in the public sector, this is a crucial case in that it demonstrates how far civil servants can go to resist the hostile takeover of a government. This article describes the coup and its background in general and the civil disobedience movement and the Myanmar civil service in particular, and it uses Hannah Arendt’s framework to place them within the theory debate.

中文翻译：

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新发展：缅甸的公务员——2021年军事政变期间的负责任的不服从

影响

公务员责任和可能不服从的问题对公共部门至关重要，政府的合法性受到公众质疑的越多，它就越相关。缅甸公务员通过大规模的根本不服从运动做出的反应本身就值得注意，它是东南亚地区和全球可能发生的现实生活案例，因为它更新并突出了民事问题。公务员必须不断问自己，他们对政府和公民的实际责任是什么。

抽象的

缅甸公务员对 2021 年 2 月的军事政变做出了回应，发起了一场强度和规模在全球范围内似乎都史无前例的抵抗运动。对于正在进行的关于公共部门的责任、不服从和抵制的辩论来说，这是一个至关重要的案例，因为它表明公务员可以在多大程度上抵制政府的敌意接管。本文描述了政变及其一般背景，特别是公民不服从运动和缅甸公务员制度，并使用汉娜·阿伦特的框架将它们置于理论辩论中。