What Drives Successful Administrative Performance During Crises? Lessons from Refugee Migration and the Covid-19 Pandemic
- The Covid-19 pandemic affects societies worldwide, challenging not only health sectors but also public administration systems in general. Understanding why public administrations perform well in the current situation—and in times of crisis more generally—is theoretically of great importance; and identifying concrete factors driving successful administrative performance under today‘s extraordinary circumstances could still improve current crisis responses. This article studies patterns of sound administrative performance with a focus on networks and knowledge management within and between crises. Subsequently, it draws on empirical evidence from two recent public administration surveys conducted in Germany in order to test derived hypotheses. The results of tests for group differences and regression analyses demonstrate that administrations that were structurally prepared, learned during preceding crises, and that displayed a high quality in their network cooperation with other administrations and with the civil society, on average, performed significantly better in the respective crises.
Author: | Rahel M. Schomaker, Michael W. Bauer |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/DOI: 10.1111/puar.13280 |
ISSN: | 0033-3352 |
Parent Title (English): | Public Administration Review |
Volume: | 80 |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Place of publication: | Hoboken, NJ |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2020 |
Publishing Institution: | Deutsche Universität für Verwaltungswissenschaften |
Publishing Institution: | Deutsches Forschungsinstitut für öffentliche Verwaltung |
Release Date: | 2021/01/15 |
Reviewed Document?: | Ja |
Issue: | 5 |
First Page: | 845 |
Last Page: | 850 |
Documents ordered by chairs: | Lehrstuhl für vergleichende Verwaltungswissenschaft und Policy-Analyse (Univ.-Prof. Dr. Michael Bauer) |
Licence (German): | Urheberrechtlich geschützt |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - CC BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |