Management strategies in response to an institutional crisis: The case of earthquakes in the Netherlands

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Schmidt, Arjen; Boersma, Kees; Groenewegen, Peter
• 署名单位: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3298
• DOI: 10.1111/padm.12516
• 发表日期: 2018
• 页码: 513-527
• 关键词: LONGITUDINAL-FIELD RESEARCH; policy change

摘要

When a policy sector is confronted with a relatively strong and steep decline in legitimacy, we speak of an institutional crisis. We know little about the causes or consequences of these crises. This article explores how institutional crises are managed. It focuses on the effects of management strategies observed in a case study of an institutional crisis in the Netherlands. While we found that policy elites displayed a tendency to maintain the status quo of a policy sector, we also found that the effectiveness of their response strategies was negated by the counter-response it evoked among freshly energized interest, advocacy and citizen groups. We conclude that the resolution of an institutional crisis is inherently contested. Based on our case study, we develop a theoretical model and formulate propositions that may help to improve our understanding of institutional crisis management.