The paper argues that to govern a pandemic, governments require dynamic capabilities and
capacity—too often missing. These include capacity to adapt and learn; capacity to align …

The paper discusses the responses to the COVID-19 crisis in the acute phase of the first
wave of the pandemic (February-May 2020) by different Italian regions in Italy, which has a …

This cross-country comparison of administrative responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in
France, Germany and Sweden is aimed at exploring how institutional contexts and …

Purpose The current Covid-19 crisis research focuses especially on epidemiologic and
macro-level socioeconomic aspects. It only marginally covers impacts on local budgets. Our …

This article studies the difference in the government response to COVID-19 in Norway and
Sweden drawing upon theories of agenda setting, crisis management and multi-level …

This article provides a conceptual framework for the analysis of COVID-19 crisis governance
in the first half of 2020 from a cross-country comparative perspective. It focuses on the issue …

This article is aimed at analysing local and intergovernmental responses to the COVID-19
pandemic in Germany during the 'first wave'of the pandemic. It will answer the question of …

Why do countries respond differently when they face the same pandemic? In this article, we
comparatively investigate the effects of policy styles in sha** responses to the COVID-19 …

A ground-breaking account which shows how the public sector must adapt, but also
persevere, in order to advance technology and innovation From self-driving cars to smart …

If the COVID‐19 pandemic has taught us anything, it is that policy makers, experts, and
public managers need to be capable of interpreting comparative data on their government's …