Politics Of Crisis Management Research Articles

Governing contingencies by proxy: a governmentality approach on social supports in Istanbul under mutual uncertainty

ABSTRACT Contingencies comprise immediate possibilities and aleatory interactions in the form of calculated responses to mutual uncertainties. While contingencies are critically important to governmental policies, yet they have been rarely considered in social analysis. The aim of this study is to analyze how the Covid-19 pandemic as a crisis has been governed both against and through contingencies by investigating the social support measures initiated by the Turkish government and the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM). We gathered empirical data qualitatively from 12 in-depth interviews with the officers of local government and NGOs, supplemented by official documents. We found that contingencies are produced and become residual through configurational interdependencies, such as competition between the central and local government, unemployment, inadequate support, standardization, path dependency, and lack of diversification in need assessment. This study revealed that governmental practices are governed through contingent possibilities and interactions under mutual uncertainty and the politics of crisis management and conflict between local and central authority changed social support mechanisms.

The development of policy on international student welfare and the question of crisis response

AbstractThe global market in international education has grown almost without interruption over several decades. Increases in international student enrolments in Australia have been among the most impressive in the world, though they declined between 2010 and 2013. The decline was attributable to exchange rate movements and changes to student visa regulations, though an additional factor lay in reputational fallout from a series of violent physical attacks on Indian students, mostly in 2009. In response, Australian federal and State governments undertook diplomatic trips to India, established a raft of public inquiries to investigate the broader question of international student welfare, and made policy changes. Utilising the literature on public policy “crises”, this paper presents government responses to the 2010–2013 downturn in terms of managing a “long‐shadow crisis” (Boin et al., The Politics of Crisis Management: Public Leadership Under Pressure; Cambrtidge University Press, 2005), which typically emerges quickly but has major political consequences, is only seen to be resolved incrementally, and calls for policy change rather than fine‐tuning in response. The adequacy of the policy response to the crisis is not discussed. The article suggests that the crisis and the response acted to elevate the status of international education as an area of policy in general, though not as a mainstream area of social policy.

Pandemic 2.0: Can Information Technology Help Save The Planet?

The World Health Organization (WHO) hosted the first large scientific meeting about the previously unknown A/H1N1 influenza on 29 April 2009, heading a teleconference that included more than 100 pa...

Extraordinary Governance Challenges

A reading of the daily news reminds us that the threat of crisis is an ever-present reality for .public administrators. In The Politics of Crisis Management, Arjen Boin, Paul't Hart, Eric Stern, and Bengt Sundelius detail the context of management and politics in which a leader operates during a crisis. They also give practical guidance to leaders based on their extensive research, teaching, and training in the field. With its multinational cadre of authors, this book may appeal to an international audience.

The Politics of Crisis Management: Public Leadership under Pressure – By Arjen Boin, Paul ‘t Hart, Eric Stern, and Bengst Sundelius Lessons on Leadership by Terror: Finding Shaka Zulu in the Attic – By Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries

The Politics of Crisis Management: Public Leadership under Pressure – By Arjen Boin, Paul ‘t Hart, Eric Stern, and Bengst Sundelius Lessons on Leadership by Terror: Finding Shaka Zulu in the Attic – By Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries

The Politics of Crisis Management: Public Leadership under Pressure by A. Boin, P. ‘t Hart, E. Stern and B. Sundelius

The Politics of Crisis Management: Public Leadership under Pressure by A. Boin, P. ‘t Hart, E. Stern and B. Sundelius

Managing Complex Crises

The Politics of Crisis Management: Public Leadership under Pressure. By Arjen Boin, Paul ‘t Hart, Eric Stern, Bengt Sundelius. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 194 pp., $70.00 cloth (ISBN: 0-521-84537-8), $27.99 paper (ISBN: 0-521-60733-7). The Politics of Crisis Management: Public Leadership under Pressure, by Boin et al., marks the end of a significant cycle of research conducted over the past decade. Summarizing and integrating the findings of numerous individual cases from Europe and beyond, the book provides a general theory of crisis management that is thoroughly supported by extensive empirical evidence. Recent research on crisis management has focused on individual crises, triggered by such things as natural disasters, epidemics, technological failures, human mistakes, political conflicts, terrorist attacks, and the like. These crises were predominantly investigated through a cognitive-institutional approach that stresses such analytical themes as crisis preparedness, prevention and mitigation, leadership, decision units, problem perception and framing, value conflict, politico-bureaucratic cooperation and conflict, crisis communication and credibility, transnationalization and internationalization, temporal effects, and learning. Several of the studies, conducted as part of the Crisis Management Europe project, followed a common research design—including a common theoretical starting point and methodological approach (see, for example, Newlove, Stern, and Svedin 2000; Porfiriev and Svedin 2002; Bos 2003; Hansen 2003; Brandstrom and Malesic 2004). Case-by-case and country-by-country, the reports generated by these studies have thoroughly assessed crisis management in particular institutional contexts. However, they have not attempted to provide a systematic set of generalizations based on the various findings. The only real attempt to generalize from these rich empirical data— Managing Crises: Threats, Dilemmas, Opportunities by Rosenthal, Boin, and Comfort—appeared in 2001. However, that volume was limited by the number of studies available at the time and by the book's lack of a common theoretical and methodological approach. The Politics of Crisis Management goes well beyond the scope of the Rosenthal et al. volume. This book reflects, first and foremost, the multidisciplinary nature of crisis management, involving disaster sociology and psychology, international relations, …

Madison's Managers: Public Administration and the Constitution and The Politics of Crisis Management: Public Leadership Under Pressure

Madison's Managers: Public Administration and the Constitution. By Anthony M. Bertelli and Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. 240p. $60.00 cloth, $25.00 paper.The Politics of Crisis Management: Public Leadership Under Pressure. By Arjen Boin, Paul 't Hart, Eric Stern, and Bengt Sundelius. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 182p. $70.00 cloth, $27.99 paper.No undergraduate public administration course would be complete without at least a perfunctory attempt to summarize the never-ending debate about what public administration is. From Woodrow Wilson to “scientific management” to the Brownlow Committee to the Willowbrook Conference and beyond, the position papers and studies pile up; yet the debate (which often seems more like a monologue) continues. Students find this debate unsatisfying, and it is easy to see why. For a craft that prides itself above all on its relevance to practical affairs (as Woodrow Wilson put it, administration is “government in action”), the arguments that students are most often exposed to have the arid scholasticism of medieval disputes about angels dancing on pins. If public administration is so practical, students must be thinking, why cannot its theorists just cut to the chase and tell us how to do it? Or even what it is?

The Politics of Crisis Management. Public Leadership Under Pressure

The Politics of Crisis Management. Public Leadership Under Pressure

Foot-and-Mouth 2001: The Politics of Crisis Management

Journal Article Foot‐and‐Mouth 2001: The Politics of Crisis Management Get access Allan McConnell, Allan McConnell Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Alastair Stark Alastair Stark Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 55, Issue 4, 1 October 2002, Pages 664–681, https://doi.org/10.1093/parlij/55.4.664 Published: 01 October 2002

The political economy of the Asian financial crisis

The Asian crisis sparked a thorough reappraisal of international financial norms, the policy prescriptions of the International Monetary Fund and the adequacy of the existing financial architecture. To draw proper conclusions from the crisis, however, it is necessary to understand its domestic politics. In this study, political scientist Stephen Haggard focuses on the most seriously affected countries - Indonesia, South Korea, Malaysia and Thailand - while also drawing lessons from those economies, such as Taiwan, that escaped severe distress. Haggard focuses on the political economy of the crisis, emphasizing the longer-run problems of moral hazard and corruption, the politics of crisis management and the political consequences of severe economic downturn. Looking forward, he focuses on two critical policy issues: changes in social safety nets in the crisis countries and efforts at corporate and financial restructuring.

Apocalypse Now? Whither the Urban Fiscal Crisis

The imminent financial collapse of America's great cities, widely predicted only a few short years ago, seems, for now, to have been averted. Professor Nivola lucidly explores the causes and currents leading to this widespread prediction of an urban apocalypse, examines the contrasting social-science interpretations of the roots of the urban crisis, and explores the political strategies used to avert collapse. In the course of his discussion he has much of interest to say regarding urban politics, public-sector unionism, and the politics of crisis management.