Governing by looking back: Historical analogies and crisis management

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Brändström, A; Bynander, F; t Hart, P
• 署名单位: Swedish National Defence College; Utrecht University
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3298
• DOI: 10.1111/j.0033-3298.2004.00390.x
• 发表日期: 2004
• 页码: 191-210
• 关键词: memory; BEHAVIOR; POLICY

摘要

This article offers a conceptual framework that broadens and enhances our understanding of the role of 'history' in contemporary governance and the attempts by policy-makers to 'manage' critical issues. Building upon the literature on historical analogies in policy-making, we distinguish three dimensions that clarify how the past may emerge in and affect the current deliberations, choices and rhetoric of policy-makers. We apply this in a comparative examination of two cases of crisis management where historical analogies played an important part: the Swedish response to (alleged) submarine intrusions in 1982, and the European Union sanctions against Austria in 1999. We induce from the case comparison new concepts and hypotheses for understanding the role of historical analogies in public policy-making and crisis management.