Public administration and politics meet turbulence: The search for robust governance responses

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Ansell, Christopher; Sorensen, Eva; Torfing, Jacob
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California Berkeley; Roskilde University; Nord University
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3298
• DOI: 10.1111/padm.12874
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 3-22
• 关键词: EUROPEAN-UNION; networks; management; complexity; strategies; leadership

摘要

This introduction to the symposium on Robust politics and governance in turbulent times; examines how different governance paradigms have conceptualized the relationship between order and disorder and stability and change. We selectively focus on two prominent and well-established paradigms-public bureaucracy and network governance-and then contrast them with a third emerging paradigm, robust governance that aims to provide stable conditions for the development of robust responses to heightened turbulence through a combination of flexible adaptation and proactive innovation. We account for the three governance paradigms one by one with a view to how they deal with turbulence. We then define robust governance, discuss its distinctiveness compared to crisis management, resilience and agile management, and investigate the conditions and strategies for pursuing it. Finally, we endeavor to incorporate the findings of the symposium articles into the new and emerging perspective on how to advance robust governance in times of turbulence.