Crisis Leadership and Public Governance during the COVID–19 Pandemic Internatonal Comparisons
Anthony B L Cheung
Educaton University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Sandra Van Thiel
Erasmus University Roterdam, The Netherlands & Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Key Features
• With 2 di erent countr region chapters, the book presents a airl representatve picture o crisis response in (essentall ) developed economies across East sia, the ceania, Europe and orth merica
• mong various issues and challenges posed b C 9, it ocuses on crisis leadership and public governance, to provide relevant lessons to governments and leaders
• While it avoids umping to an uick appraisal and ranking o internatonal C 9 per ormance, some meaning ul internatonal comparisons are made which relate to crisis response strategies and e ectveness in leadership, governance capacites, insttutonal characteristcs and even cultural legacies
• n additon, all chapter contributors are those highl conversant with their natonal regional s stems and pandemic situatons
• he two co editors are e perienced public administraton and management scholars, one rom sia and the other rom Europe, both with broad internatonal outlook and networks, who have been able to bring about a strong writng team or this book
Descripton
This book explores various issues and challenges emanatng from the COVID-19 pandemic. t e amines how governments worldwide have dealt with the pandemic. Post C 9 and its disruptve impact on social and economic li e as well as public and politcal a tudes, the world is not the same. new normal has dawned in public management and public services, with immense implicatons. his volume collects the lessons drawn rom the pandemic, notabl how crisis leadership and public governance were used to combat the crisis, as well as which aspects were help ul in that regard.
his book covers a total o 7 countries and regions, namel apan, South Korea, Singapore, China ( ainland), Hong Kong, aiwan, ustralia, ew ealand, tal , he etherlands, the ordic Countries ( enmark, orwa , Sweden, inland and celand), the UK and US. Special a enton is drawn to China ( ainland) in partcular, where the pandemic frst broke out. ts subse uent e orts in suppressing the epidemic have been uite stunning. he range enables good internatonal comparisons to be made in crisis leadership, response strategies and e ectveness across contnents, s stems, and cultures (East sia, ceania, Europe and orth merica). While the pandemic is stll ongoing b the tme the book is fnali ed, the e perience gained over more than two ears has provided good ground or lesson drawing.
Authors
Anthony B L Cheung is esearch Chair Pro essor o Public dministraton and ormer President (2008 2), Educaton Universit o Hong Kong. rom ul 20 2 to une 20 7, he was Secretar or ransport and Housing o the Hong Kong Government and Chairman o the Hong Kong Housing uthorit .
Sandra Van Thiel is Pro essor o Public anagement, epartment o Public dministraton and Sociolog at Erasmus Universit o erdam and epartment o Public dministraton at adboud Universit i megen, the etherlands.
January 2023
Imprint: World Scientfc Publishing
Compan
Extent: 400pp
Type: eview olume
Series: Critcal Perspectves and ssues in Governance and Public anagement
Main Subject: Social Sciences
Sub-Subjects: Politcal Science Polic Studies Public Polic Social ssues Human Securit Public Health (+Epidemiolog )
Keywords: Crisis Leadership Crisis
Governance Public dministraton
Public anagement Crisis anagement
Public Polic State Capacit C 9
Readership: Universit and college libraries academics, graduate students and post doctoral researchers in the felds o governance, public administraton, government and politcs, public management, public polic and crisis management public sector managers (especial those who have a role to pla in crisis management and ant epidemic work) asters students in Public dministraton, Public Polic and Public anagement and even programmes those who are generall interested in understanding government work and per ormance, including politcians, politcal part researchers, think tank anal sts and media ournalists
Contents
• Introducton: he World is ot the Same er C 9 ( nthon L Cheung and Sandra van hiel)
• China (Mainland): Strong Crisis Leadership and namic ero Clearing Strateg Challenges and pi alls (Liang a)
• Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Experience: Controlling the Pandemic mid a Politcal Crisis ( nthon L Cheung and le ingwei He)
• Japan: Japan Atemptng to Control the Pandemic: ramework and Polic making ssessments rom Governance and Leadership Perspectves ( kira akamura, omoki i uka and atsu a ogami)
• South Korea: South Korean E perience o ightng gainst C 9 nsttutonal n rastructure, Polic esponses, and Collaboratve Governance (Pan Suk Kim)
• Singapore: Singapore and C 9 rom Containment to uilding Pandemic esilience ( Woo and un Wu)
• aiwan Crisis Leadership and esponse ode during i erent Stages o C 9 he Case o aiwan (Chun Chieh a)
• Australia and New Zealand: he Politcs and Polic o C 9 in ustralia and ew ealand ( lan enna and Shaun Goldfnch)
• Italy: he talian Polic esponse to C 9 id Politcal Leadership a er (Giliberto Capano and Anna Malandrino)
• The Netherlands: Contested ntelligent pproach Crisis anagement and Societal esponse to the C 9 Pandemic in he etherlands (Kees Boersma, Yiannis Kyratsis and Jeroen Wolbers)
• The Nordic Countries: Crisis anagement o the C 9 Pandemic he ordic Wa and Swedish E ceptonalism (Tom Christensen and Per Laegreid )
• The United Kingdom: he Sick an o Europe he United Kingdom s C 9 esponse (Charlote Boin, Martn Lodge and Henry Shields)
• The United States: Leadership and Crisis anagement in C 9 he US E perience hrough anuar 202 (Zachary Cox, Paolo Cavaliere and James Kendra)
• Conclusions: Lessons rom an ngoing Crisis (Sandra van Thiel and Anthony B L Cheung)