Sten Widmalm
Thomas Persson
Charles Parker
Department of Government
Uppsala University
Overview
• Social capital
• Administrative traditions
• Crisis management in the EU
Points of departure
• Cooperation within and between crisis management authorities, between countries, and between countries and the EU
• Who can you trust? Cooperation? Norms and social capital!
• Cultural clashes and the importance of administrative cultures
What is social capital
• James Coleman
• What contributes to collective action
–Networks
–Trust
–Shared norms4
Keep in mind• We do not say that trust is
always good
• No simple formula for all situations
• Certain behaviors are institutionalized - they become “rules of the game”
Administrative culture
Administrative cultureDie drei reinen Typen
der legitimen Herrschaft
• Legal
• Traditional
• Charismatic
Max Weber
Administrative culture
• Reduces transaction costs
• Shortcuts
• Security
• Understanding
• Clear communication
• Increases transaction costs
• Conflict
• Uncertainty
• Stops communication
• Creates misunderstanding
Advantages Disadvantages
Administrative traditions
• Anglo-Saxon
• German
• French
• Scandinavian
• Central and Eastern European
We investigate individualsTheir view of:
• Norms
• Hierarchies
• Rules
• Responsibilities
• Clientelism
• Elitism
• Competition
• Openness
• Goal orientation
• Decentralization... Persona
Previous research
• Case studies
• Policy and strategy studies
• Describing rules and structures
• Technical requirements
• Describing outcomes(‘t Hart & Boin 2010; Widmalm, Persson, och Parker, 2013)
• How social capital and administrative culture matter for effective emergency preparedness and crisis management in the EU.
Research objective
Types of crises
• Pandemics
• Forest fires
• Sabotage
• Riots
• Storms
• Ash clouds
• Nuclear accidents
• Floods...
• Crisis: Who can you trust? Cultural clashes?
Crisis management in the EU
• Distributed sense-making – shared problem definitions
• Networked coordination – activating relevant institutions
• Surge capacity – problems of supply logistics
• “Formal scaling procedures” –decisions, practices and procedures at the right level (Ansell et al. 2010)
What to do with this?
• A first empirical study - description and increased knowledge
• Insights in to how to improve communication and cooperation
• Anticipating barriers
• Prepare strategies to circumvent obstacles
• Conditions for improving trust
• Ultimately, to...
A better understanding
of the conditions
crucial for effective
crisis management
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