The Routledge Handbook on Crisis, Polycrisis, and Public Administration

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Kim Moloney (Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar) Gloria J. Billingsley (Jackson State University, USA)

The Routledge Handbook on Crisis, Polycrisis, and Public Administration

Kim Moloney (Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar), Gloria J. Billingsley (Jackson State University, USA), Bok Gyo Jeong (Kean University, USA) , Pablo Sanabria-Pulido (Florida Atlantic University, USA)

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18 March 2025

Public administration; Warfare & defence; Public ownership & nationalisation; Natural disasters

Series: ASPA Series in Public Administration and Public Policy

This volume considers how local, national, and global crises with differing durations, sizes, and impacts challenge the public sector to respond.

Within the public administration and policy disciplines, there has been limited recognition about the nature of, linkages among, and the response options for crises and polycrises, when more than one crisis, emergency, disaster, or catastrophe (whether human-caused or natural) simultaneously impacts citizens in one geographical location. This handbook gathers experts from different fields to explore how each crisis challenges human capacity, information technology, and communication capabilities, and how public leaders must respond. These expert contributions are grouped within five thematic sections:

Structures in Crisis: A North-South Dialogue, to engage national and global perspectives on how political, social, and economic structures respond during crises Agents in Crisis: A Cross-Actor Dialogue, on how agents respond to crises Human Capital and Information Technology in Crisis, exploring how these resources interact during crises Public Sector Communication in Crisis, examining issues of government and governance in effective crisis communication Practitioners in Crisis, a reminder to the discipline that important context and realities are missed if practitioner realities are overlooked.

Chapters in the book engage 23 countries and one overseas dependency along with 14 crisis events. Eighteen chapters are focused on one crisis event while ten chapters directly or indirectly engage polycrises.

As crises and polycrises become a constancy of our time, this volume will be of great interest to students, researchers, and practitioners of public administration and public policy.

Edited by: Kim Moloney (Hamad Bin Khalifa University Qatar), Gloria J. Billingsley (Jackson State University, USA), Bok Gyo Jeong (Kean University, USA), Pablo Sanabria-Pulido (Florida Atlantic University, USA), Tonya E. Thornton
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032367583
ISBN 10: 103236758X
Series: ASPA Series in Public Administration and Public Policy
Pages: 362
Publication Date: 18 March 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Kim Moloney is an Associate Professor at the College of Public Policy at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar. Her latest books are her sole-authored Who Matters at the World Bank (2022) and separately, her co-editing (with Diane Stone) of The Oxford Handbook of Global Policy and Transnational Administration (2019). Gloria J. Billingsley is a Professor of Public Policy and Administration at Jackson State University, USA, with over 20 years of teaching experience and building community partnerships. Her research includes issues on voting rights; race, gender, and class; minority participation in health research, and issues of spirituality and health. Bok Gyo Jeong is an Associate Professor of Public Affairs at Kean University, USA. His research interests include comparative civil society, global/transnational policy issues, nonprofit higher education, social entrepreneurship/economy, UN-NGO partnership, and collaboration between government and nonprofits. Pablo Sanabria-Pulido is a Professor at Universidad EAFIT, Colombia. He studies and teaches the design, formulation, and implementation of public policies and the managerial challenges that public service organizations and public officials face, aiming to disentangle how to make public organizations work better, particularly at the national and local levels. His research has been recognized and published in key international public administration and policy outlets. Tonya E. Thornton is the Director of Critical Infrastructure Protection with the Global Connective Center. Her expertise focuses on emergency management and grid security to provide resiliency solutions. She is a member of the American Society for Public Administration and is Treasurer for its Section on Emergency and Crisis Management. Eric Zeemering is an Associate Professor and MPA Director at the University of Georgia, USA.

Reviews for The Routledge Handbook on Crisis, Polycrisis, and Public Administration

“This exceptional book introduces the concepts of polycrises and crisis-constant as a framework for understanding the dynamics that near-continual change and uncertainty create for public administrators responsible for managing public services. Initiated in response to COVID-19, a remarkable roster of international co-authors present the problem of polycrisis in global context.” Louise Comfort, Professor Emerita, University of Pittsburgh, USA “The Covid-19 pandemic trained the spotlight on our new macro reality – multi-layered and sequential crises that know no geographic boundaries. Our new reality demands an expanded analytical toolbox where we can nimbly confront our real-time polycrisis. The authors in this volume do exactly that, construct a toolkit for effectively charting a clear-eyed path forward that embraces the realities of our crises today.” Victoria DeFrancesco Soto, Dean and Professor, Clinton School of Public Service, University of Arkansas, USA “Crises are global, pandemics are global – but public administration scholarship, often enough, is not. Narrow Western perspectives abound, both regarding what is studied and how. The Routledge Handbook on Crisis, Polycrisis, and Public Administration however is truly global in outlooks and topics and therefore makes a significant contribution, not only to its vital topic, but also to the public administration discipline generally.” Wolfgang Drechsler, TalTech, UCL IIPP, Universitas Indonesia, and Harvard University “The Routledge Handbook on Crisis, Polycrisis, and Public Administration is a vital resource offering profound insights into handling complex crises across local, national, and global landscapes. Merging detailed analysis with actionable guidance, it is a must-read for scholars and practitioners interested in enhancing capacity for crisis management during difficult times.” Robert C. Orr, Professor and Dean, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, USA “With a diverse set of authors and cases, this book provides an excellent starting point with key lessons for anyone charged with organizing and communicating with the public in times of disaster or societal crisis. For students who want to go into public service or humanitarian work, the book provides a valuable discussion of challenges the public sector faces in managing significant contemporary crises and disasters. The crosscutting collaborative research the handbook reflects, is precisely the kind of joint approach we need to build capacity and resilience in the face of adversity.” Lina Svedin, Professor, School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, Air University, USA