Abstract
This paper examines Isaiah Berlin's ideas on freedom and explores their implications for public administration enquiry and practice. It is argued here that public administration writers have generally downplayed the importance of negative freedom, as Berlin defined it. This is problematic because it leads public administration writers to neglect the role that negative freedom plays in protecting pluralism. Such neglect is especially troubling given the threats posed to pluralism by the current war on terrorism. I argue here that public administration enquiry and practice can help to protect negative freedom and pluralism by drawing more upon our constitutional traditions.
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