Introduction to the Research Handbook on Public Management and COVID-19

Helen Dickinson, Catherine Smith, Sophie Yates and Janine O’Flynn

Chapter 1 in Research Handbook on Public Management and COVID-19, 2024, pp 1-17 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter introduces the book and some key concepts that are important for its context. First, we provide a timeline of COVID-19 and discuss our own experience of the pandemic ‘down under’, highlighting the importance of context to considerations of the pandemic. We then consider the ways that public management has tended to think about crises. Undoubtedly a crisis response was required in the early stages of the pandemic as governments sought to mobilise pandemic preparedness plans, but many of the public management issues that posed challenges beyond the initial crisis stage have long existed, often related to deeply entrenched social inequities. Some scholars suggest this means the field is not currently well-equipped for its task, and therefore the pandemic might offer an opportunity for public management to reflect and reorient to better support governments and public managers in the future.

Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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