nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/8ba82d40cc0cc83e DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 240606s2024||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/8ba82d40cc0cc83e doi eng 342 23 Kisilowski, Maciej Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-9390-6818 Militant Public Administration Kisilowski, Maciej Verfassungsblog 2024-06-06 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier An unprecedented scandal surrounding a Polish governmental fund established to aid crime victims highlights the role of civil servants in authoritarian state capture. The revelations surrounding the Justice Fund show broad levels of bureaucratic acquiescence with shocking abuses of power, and only belated effort to document and report these abuses. The Polish case shows it is time for a democratically militant public administration – the new vision of civil service better prepared to fend off authoritarian encroachment from elected politicians. CC BY-SA 4.0 EU EU Militant public administation Poland Polen Whistleblower (DE-588)10290611-7 gnd EU (DE-588)4046496-9 gnd Polen Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/militant-public-administration/ raw object