Date: 2020
Type: Article
What drives successful administrative performance during crises? : lessons from refugee migration and the Covid-19 pandemic
Public administration review, 2020, Vol. 80, No. 5, pp. 845-850
SCHOMAKER, Rahel M., BAUER, Michael W., What drives successful administrative performance during crises? : lessons from refugee migration and the Covid-19 pandemic, Public administration review, 2020, Vol. 80, No. 5, pp. 845-850
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/69469
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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 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.
Additional information:
First published online : 08 August 2020
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/69469
Full-text via DOI: 10.1111/puar.13280
ISSN: 0033-3352; 1540-6210
Publisher: Wiley