TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kuhlmann, Sabine
A1  - Bouckaert, Geert
A1  - Galli, Davide
A1  - Reiter, Renate
A1  - van Hecke, Steven
T1  - Opportunity management of the COVID-19 pandemic
BT  - testing the crisis from a global perspective
JF  - International review of administrative sciences
N2  - This article provides a conceptual framework for the analysis of COVID-19 crisis governance in the first half of 2020 from a cross-country comparative perspective. It focuses on the issue of opportunity management, that is, how the crisis was used by relevant actors of distinctly different administrative cultures as a window of opportunity. We started from an overall interest in the factors that have influenced the national politics of crisis management to answer the question of whether and how political and administrative actors in various countries have used the crisis as an opportunity to facilitate, accelerate or prevent changes in institutional settings. The objective is to study the institutional settings and governance structures, (alleged) solutions and remedies, and constellations of actors and preferences that have influenced the mode of crisis and opportunity management. Finally, the article summarizes some major comparative findings drawn from the country studies of this Special Issue, focusing on similarities and differences in crisis responses and patterns of opportunity management.
KW  - administrative culture
KW  - comparison
KW  - COVID-19
KW  - crisis management
KW  - governance
KW  - opportunity management
KW  - pandemic
KW  - window of opportunity
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0020852321992102
SN  - 0020-8523
SN  - 1461-7226
VL  - 87
IS  - 3
SP  - 497
EP  - 517
PB  - Sage
CY  - Los Angeles, California
ER  -