Opportunity management of the COVID-19 pandemic
- 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 andThis 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.…
Author details: | Sabine KuhlmannORCiDGND, Geert BouckaertORCiDGND, Davide GalliORCiD, Renate ReiterORCiD, Steven van HeckeORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1177/0020852321992102 |
ISSN: | 0020-8523 |
ISSN: | 1461-7226 |
Title of parent work (English): | International review of administrative sciences |
Subtitle (English): | testing the crisis from a global perspective |
Publisher: | Sage |
Place of publishing: | Los Angeles, California |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2021/02/24 |
Publication year: | 2021 |
Release date: | 2024/01/24 |
Tag: | COVID-19; administrative culture; comparison; crisis management; governance; opportunity management; pandemic; window of opportunity |
Volume: | 87 |
Issue: | 3 |
Number of pages: | 21 |
First page: | 497 |
Last Page: | 517 |
Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Sozialwissenschaften / Fachgruppe Politik- & Verwaltungswissenschaft |
DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 34 Recht / 340 Recht |
Peer review: | Referiert |