Research Handbook on Public Management and COVID-19 (Elgar Handbooks in Public Administration and Management)

✍ Scribed by Helen Dickinson (editor), Sophie Yates (editor), Janine O’Flynn (editor), Catherine Smith (editor)

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 393
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Following the extensive global impact of COVID-19, this forward-looking Research Handbook examines the pandemic from a public management perspective, exploring the roles and responses of public managers and considering how public organisations will be reshaped in the future.

This Research Handbook brings together a wealth of established and early career international scholars who offer summative and comparative analyses of jurisdictions’ pandemic responses, alongside vital in-depth studies of jurisdictional pandemic experiences. Chapters interrogate public management successes and failures in response to the pandemic, the systemic inequalities highlighted by the pandemic, how the pandemic challenged public managers and political leaders, and crucially how the pandemic challenged fundamental concepts of public management. Offering key advice as to how public management can adapt and reorient going forward, this Research Handbook is a vital contribution to the developing discussion and debate taking place within this discipline.

Exploring a broad range of key concepts in the field, this book will be an invaluable read for students, academics and researchers of public management, public administration, health care management, sociology and social policy. Providing important data relating to crisis response, this book will also be of practical benefit to public leaders and their professional teams when coordinating action in emergency situations.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter
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Contents
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1. Introduction to the Research Handbook on Public Management and COVID-19
PART I PUBLIC PROBLEMS AND PUBLIC MANAGERS: THE CHALLENGES OF COVID-19 AND HOW THEY HAVE CHALLENGED PUBLIC MANAGERS IN THEIR ESTABLISHED ROLES
2. Pandemic challenges for public managers: juggling parallel crisis playbooks
3. Reconsidering public management in a post-COVID world
4. What COVID-19 showed us about populism, democracy, and performance: the case of the United States
5. Uncertainty and ambiguity during a crisis and the challenge for public management: COVID-19 crisis management in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia
6. The politics of “letting it rip”: why Australia went from zero-COVID to COVID-central
PART II HOW COVID-19 CHALLENGED THE FUNDAMENTALS OF PUBLIC MANAGEMENT
7. Procurement and public spending: amplification and emergence of issues arising from COVID-19
8. Citizen participation in public management: activated, empowered, responsibilised, abandoned?
9. Public Service Logic: a service lens on the COVID-19 vaccination programmes
10. Can co-production that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic be sustained?
11. Examining the impact of COVID-19 on managing public sector employees: overcoming or exacerbating incoherences?
12. The governance of public services during COVID-19: a review of challenges and opportunities
PART III SUCCESS, FAILURE, AND IN-BETWEEN: WHAT THE PANDEMIC TAUGHT US
13. Responding to COVID-19 in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities: the importance of strengths-based public administration, cultural safety and working in genuine partnership
14. A review of COVID-19 organisational recovery in a UK metropolitan police force utilising a complexity theory framework
15. Policing the pandemic: deciding and acting in the face of uncertainty and the unexpected
16. Trust, capacity and management of vaccine rollouts
17. The governance of food security in the post-COVID-19 context: innovative principles for public management in Argentina
18. ‘Build back better’: infrastructure policy’s post-pandemic promise
19. Ubuntu philosophy in times of crises: COVID-19 pandemic period and beyond
20. Small island states, COVID-19, and public policies: a thematic analysis
21. Death management in public administration: lessons from the front lines
22. The rise of robots in the COVID-19 pandemic: implications for public management
PART IV REVEALING AND ADDRESSING SYSTEMIC PROBLEMS
23. “Stay home”: queer(y)-ing the heteronormative assumptions of COVID policy responses
24. Public management challenges with the emergency response for people with disability during COVID-19
25. Gender mainstreaming and collaborative public management during COVID-19: a case study of national machineries for gender equality and care infrastructure in Argentina
26. How useful is priority setting in an emergency? An analysis of its role in national responses to the COVID-19 pandemic
27. The future of public management as we emerge from the acute phase of COVID-19: key themes and future trajectories
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