This paper serves as a renewed call for public management scholars and public leaders in liberal democracies to be the champions of accountability standards that are explicitly and implicitly inherent to liberal democratic forms of governance. This call is particularly salient amid increasing populism, polarization, and democratic backsliding. Drawing from the historical and contemporary political and legal philosophies of small‐l liberalism and democracy advanced throughout the ages, we define a set of seven liberal democratic accountability standards focusing on matters of authority, rights, tolerance, truth claims, and professional deference. We then consider how these standards relate to some of public administration and management's ongoing considerations of the politics‐administration dichotomy, citizen engagement, and network governance, and make the case for more explicit focus on liberal democratic accountability standards in public management scholarship.

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自由民主问责标准和公共行政

本文再次呼吁自由民主国家的公共管理学者和公共领导人成为自由民主治理形式明确和隐含的问责标准的拥护者。在民粹主义、两极分化和民主倒退日益加剧的情况下，这一呼吁尤为突出。借鉴历史和当代小国的政治和法律哲学我自由主义和民主在各个时代都在进步，我们定义了一套七项自由民主问责标准，重点关注权威、权利、宽容、真理主张和职业尊重等问题。然后，我们考虑这些标准如何与公共行政和管理部门对政治行政二分法、公民参与和网络治理的持续考虑相关，并提出在公共管理学术中更明确地关注自由民主问责标准的理由。