The Routledge Handbook on Crisis, Polycrisis, and Public Administration

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-36758-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 390 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 889 g

Reihe: ASPA Series in Public Administration and Public Policy

This volume considers how local, national, and global crises with differing durations, sizes, and impacts challenge the public sector to respond.

Within the public administration and policy disciplines, there has been limited recognition about the nature of, linkages among, and the response options for crises and polycrises, when more than one crisis, emergency, disaster, or catastrophe (whether human-caused or natural) simultaneously impacts citizens in one geographical location. This handbook gathers experts from different fields to explore how each crisis challenges human capacity, information technology, and communication capabilities, and how public leaders must respond. These expert contributions are grouped within five thematic sections:

- Structures in Crisis: A North-South Dialogue, to engage national and global perspectives on how political, social, and economic structures respond during crises

- Agents in Crisis: A Cross-Actor Dialogue, on how agents respond to crises

- Human Capital and Information Technology in Crisis, exploring how these resources interact during crises

- Public Sector Communication in Crisis, examining issues of government and governance in effective crisis communication

- Practitioners in Crisis, a reminder to the discipline that important context and realities are missed if practitioner realities are overlooked.

Chapters in the book engage 23 countries and one overseas dependency along with 14 crisis events. Eighteen chapters are focused on one crisis event while ten chapters directly or indirectly engage polycrises.

As crises and polycrises become a constancy of our time, this volume will be of great interest to students, researchers, and practitioners of public administration and public policy.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moloney, Kim

Billingsley, Gloria J

Jeong, Bok Gyo

Sanabria-Pulido, Pablo

Thornton, Tonya E.

Zeemering, Eric

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Verwaltungswissenschaft, Öffentliche Verwaltung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

AN INTRODUCTION

1. New Realities: Constancy of Crisis and Poly-Crisis for Public Administration

Kim Moloney, Bok Gyo Jeong, and Pablo Sanabria-Pulido

SECTION I – STRUCTURES IN CRISIS: A NORTH-SOUTH DIALOGUE

Co-Editors: Pablo Sanabria-Pulido and Kim Moloney

2. How Citizens’ Perceptions of Management Capacity and Trust in Government Change during a Worldwide Crisis? The Case of Colombia during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Nathalie Méndez and Pablo Sanabria-Pulido

3. Crisis Management, Transnational Administration, and Administrative Sovereignty in Developing Countries: Problems of a National Disaster and Management Organization in Ghana

Frank L. K. Ohemeng and Rosina K. Foli

4. The Performance of Local Government in Addressing Disaster Risk and Climate Change: a Comparative Analysis of Brazil, Mexico, and Paraguay

Eduardo Grin, Ady Carrera, and Andrew Nickson

5. The Role of INTERPOL Coordinating a Global Public Policy in the Context of Unequal National Public Administration Capacities: A Case Study of the Transnational Administration Efforts to Face COVID-19 Crimes as Emerging Threats

Gerardo Bonilla-Alguera

6. State Capacity to Address Dual Crises: the Negative Interaction between the COVID-19 Pandemic and Violence against Women in Argentina and Mexico

Mariana Chudnovsky and Diana Martínez

7. Navigating Crisis and Fragmegration in the Public Sector: A Heterarchical Approach

Dana-Marie Ramjit

SECTION II -- AGENTS IN CRISIS: A CROSS-ACTOR DIALOGUE

Co-Editors: Bok Gyo Jeong and Kim Moloney

8. Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, Transnational Crisis Management System, and the United Nations: Following the 2015 Nepal Earthquake

Jungwon Yeo and Bok Gyo Jeong

9. Nongovernmental Organizations in Africa as Agenda in Crisis Response: The Case of Ghana

James K. Agbodzakey and Sandra Schrouder

10. Public Policy and Flash Floods: Crisis Management in Selected Indian Ocean Islands

Harshana Kasseeah and Sheetal Sheena Sookrajowa

11. Local Government Strategy and Crisis in the United States: A Community Resilience / Systems Perspective

Brian D. Williams

SECTION III – HUMAN CAPITAL AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN CRISIS

Co-Editors: Eric Zeemering and Tonya E. Thornton

12. Intersecting Crises in Local Government Employment in the United States: COVID-19, the Grey Tsunami, and Workforce Evolution

Kimberly L. Nelson and Brad A. M. Johnson

13. Roles of Nonprofit Organizations during the Emergency and Extreme Events: The Case of Continuum of Care (CoC) Homeless Serving Nonprofit Organizations during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Simon A. Andrew, Hee Soun Jang, Vaswati Chatterjee, and Sara Ford

14. Technology and Crisis: Butterfly or Domino Effect in Governing a Turbulent World?

Veronica Junjan, Islam Bouzguenda, and Caroline Fischer

15. Training Citizen Responses during a Crisis via Innovative ICT-based Administrative Actions in South Korea

Shin Kue Ryu

16. Critical Success Factors for Government Crisis Communication over Social Media in Emergency Management

Nilay Yavuz, Naci Karkin, and Mete Yildiz

SECTION IV – PUBLIC SECTOR COMMUNICATION IN CRISIS

Co-Editors: Gloria J. Billingsley and Tonya E. Thornton

17. Public Sector Communication in Federal Systems of Government: Exploring Successes and Failures in Crisis Communication

Saahir Shafi and Daniel J. Mallinson

18. Information Capacity and the Implementation of Social Programs in Latin America

Rik Peeters, Guillermo M. Cejudo, and César Rentería

19. COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Public Trust in Government: Implications for the Locus of Public Administration in South Africa

Nqobile Sikhosana and Ogochukwu Nzewi

20. Legitimacy deficit during emergencies: The impact of administrative discretion

Héctor David Rojas Villamil and Juan Carlos Covilla Martínez

21. Network Governance for Coordinated Disaster Response

Ratna B. Dougherty and Naim Kapucu

22. Diffusion in times of Political Polarization: An Analysis of Face Mask Policy Adoption in the United States

Davia C. Downey and William M. Myers

23. Impacts of Pandemic Planning Preparedness on select U.S. Cities during COVID-19

Karissa D. Bergene

SECTION V – PRACTITIONERS IN CRISIS

Co-Editors: Kim Moloney, Gloria J. Billingsley, Bok Gyo Jeong, Pablo Sanabria-Pulido, Tonya E. Thornton, and Eric Zeemering

24. COVID-19 and the Non-Profit Dimension: The ASPA Experience

William Shields, Jr.

25. Population Decrease and Local Government’s Measure: Lessons from Japanese Prefecture’s Experiences

Kazuyuki Ishida

26. Religion, Crisis, and Public Policy

Gloria J. Billingsley

27. Understanding the Impacts and Associated Lessons of Turnover for Emergency Management and Public Health Leaders in North Carolina during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Hardin Watkins

28. Fulfilling a volunteer-driven mission in the era of social distancing

Leslie Hale

29. Using Communication Science to Inform Responsible Crisis Communication

Holli H. Seitz



IN CONCLUSION

30. Conclusion

Eric Zeemering, Gloria J. Billingsley, and Tonya E. Thornton

Über Autor(innen)

Kim Moloney is an Associate Professor at the College of Public Policy at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar. Her latest books are her sole-authored Who Matters at the World Bank (2022) and separately, her co-editing (with Diane Stone) of The Oxford Handbook of Global Policy and Transnational Administration (2019).

Gloria J. Billingsley is a Professor of Public Policy and Administration at Jackson State University, USA, with over 20 years of teaching experience and building community partnerships. Her research includes issues on voting rights; race, gender, and class; minority participation in health research, and issues of spirituality and health.

Bok Gyo Jeong is an Associate Professor of Public Affairs at Kean University, USA. His research interests include comparative civil society, global/transnational policy issues, nonprofit higher education, social entrepreneurship/economy, UN-NGO partnership, and collaboration between government and nonprofits.

Pablo Sanabria-Pulido is a Professor at Universidad EAFIT, Colombia. He studies and teaches the design, formulation, and implementation of public policies and the managerial challenges that public service organizations and public officials face, aiming to disentangle how to make public organizations work better, particularly at the national and local levels. His research has been recognized and published in key international public administration and policy outlets.

Tonya E. Thornton is the Director of Critical Infrastructure Protection with the Global Connective Center. Her expertise focuses on emergency management and grid security to provide resiliency solutions. She is a member of the American Society for Public Administration and is Treasurer for its Section on Emergency and Crisis Management.

Eric Zeemering is an Associate Professor and MPA Director at the University of Georgia, USA.