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Ulf Ramberg. Foto.

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Tracing divergence in crisis governance : responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in France, Germany and Sweden compared

Författare

  • Sabine Kuhlmann
  • Mikael Hellström
  • Ulf Ramberg
  • Renate Reiter

Summary, in English

This cross-country comparison of administrative responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in France, Germany and Sweden is aimed at exploring how institutional contexts and administrative cultures have shaped strategies of problem-solving and governance modes during the pandemic, and to what extent the crisis has been used for opportunity management. The article shows that in France, the central government reacted determinedly and hierarchically, with tough containment measures. By contrast, the response in Germany was characterized by an initial bottom-up approach that gave way to remarkable federal unity in the further course of the crisis, followed again by a return to regional variance and local discretion. In Sweden, there was a continuation of ‘normal governance’ and a strategy of relying on voluntary compliance largely based on recommendations and less – as in Germany and France – on a strategy of imposing legally binding regulations. The comparative analysis also reveals that relevant stakeholders in all three countries have used the crisis as an opportunity for changes in the institutional settings and administrative procedures.

Avdelning/ar

  • Strategi

Publiceringsår

2021-01-06

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

556-575

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

International Review of Administrative Sciences

Volym

87

Issue

3

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

SAGE Publications

Ämne

  • Health Care Service and Management, Health Policy and Services and Health Economy
  • Public Administration Studies

Nyckelord

  • administrative culture, containment, crisis, governance, multi-level system, policy advice, public health, window of opportunity

Status

Published

Projekt

  • Public Management Research

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1461-7226