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100			_aJugl, Marlene _950776
245			_aAdministrative characteristics and timing of governments' crisis responses: A global study of early reactions to Covid-19
260			_aPublic Administration: An international quarterly
300			_a101(4), Dec, 2023: p. 1408-1426
520			_aIn a crisis, fast reaction is key. But what can public administration tell us about this? This study develops a theoretical framework explaining how administrative characteristics, including fragmentation, capacities, legacies and learning, affect governments' response timing. The COVID-19 pandemic is exploited as a unique empirical setting to test this framework and its scope conditions. Region fixed-effects models and survival analysis of partly hand collected data for more than 150 national governments confirm some limited predictive power of administrative structures and traditions: Especially in developing countries, governments with a separate ministry of health adopted binding containment measures faster. Countries with hierarchical administrative traditions, for example, socialist, adopted some interventions like school closures faster than more liberal traditions, for example, Anglo-American. These characteristics increase threat perception and availability of a response, respectively. Results also suggest that intracrisis and intercrisis learning supply governments with response options. The study advances comparative public administration and crisis research. – Reproduced https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/padm.12889
773			_aPublic Administration: An international quarterly
906			_aPUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
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