The bureau-politics of crisis
By: Rosenthal, Uriel.
Contributor(s): Kauzmin, Alexander | Hart, Paul.
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ArticleSubject(s): U.K | Crisis Management | Politics | Bureaucracy
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Public Administratio (U.K.)Summary: Bureau-political tensions and competition are an often neglected, yet crucial element in crisis management. Bureau-politics in crisis management runs counter to pervasive notions that portray centrlization and concentration of power as the dominent mode of administrative response to crisis. this article presents empirical evidence suggesting the importance of bureau-politics in the planning, response and post-crisis stages of crisis management at both strategic and operational levels of action. Again contrary to conventional wisdom it is argued that such interagency tensions, may fulfill various positive functions: they put critis agencies to test, they serve to counteract "groupthink" tendencies: they fos
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Indian Institute of Public Administration | Issue no: 69(2), Summer 91, p.211-33 | Available | AR1668 |
Bureau-political tensions and competition are an often neglected, yet crucial element in crisis management. Bureau-politics in crisis management runs counter to pervasive notions that portray centrlization and concentration of power as the dominent mode of administrative response to crisis. this article presents empirical evidence suggesting the importance of bureau-politics in the planning, response and post-crisis stages of crisis management at both strategic and operational levels of action. Again contrary to conventional wisdom it is argued that such interagency tensions, may fulfill various positive functions: they put critis agencies to test, they serve to counteract "groupthink" tendencies: they fos
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