Societal Security and Crisis Management
Governance Capacity and Legitimacy
Editors: Lægreid, Per, Rykkja, Lise H. (Eds.)
- Provides new and unique insight on government capacity for crisis management, including case studies from five European countries
- Presents new academic research from a cross-disciplinary team of researchers in Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany, and the United Kingdom
- Includes case studies on different types of crises, including flood management, forest fires, the refugee crisis and central government organization for dealing with terrorism and crises
- Offers insight on attitudes towards national states counterterrorist activity and democracy by analyzing large-scale citizen surveys
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- About this book
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This book studies governance capacity and governance legitimacy for societal security and crisis management. It highlights the importance of building organizational capacity by focusing on the coordination of public resources and underscores the relevance of legitimacy by emphasizing the importance of public perceptions, attitudes, and trust vis-à-vis government arrangements for crisis management. The authors explore several cases and identify relevant dimensions concerning performance, capacity and legitimacy across different countries. It is an ideal volume for audiences interested in public administration, public policy, crisis management and security studies.
- About the authors
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Per Lægreid is Professor at the Department for Administration and Organization Theory, University of Bergen, Norway.
Lise H. Rykkja is Associate Professor at the Department for Administration and Organization Theory, University of Bergen, Norway, and Research Professor at Uni Research Rokkan Centre, Norway.
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Societal Security and Crisis Management
- Book Subtitle
- Governance Capacity and Legitimacy
- Editors
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- Per Lægreid
- Lise H. Rykkja
- Series Title
- New Security Challenges
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-92303-1
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-92303-1
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-92302-4
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVII, 397
- Number of Illustrations and Tables
- 10 b/w illustrations
- Topics
