Assessing the Multi-level Government Response to the COVID-19 Crisis: Italy and Spain Compared

Casula, Mattia; Pazos-Vidal, Serafín

doi:10.1080/01900692.2021.1915330

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“…Para-diplomacy studies on how regions, including cities have responded to the show us that sub-national or regional governments become important actors during the difficult times other than states and international organizations. The studies cover a variety of cases coming across the world, such as Maranhão (Alvarenga et al, 2020), Cape Town (Maziwisa, 2021), the Euroregion (Böhm, 2021;Casula & Pazos-Vidal, 2021), Jakarta (Luerdi, 2021(Luerdi, , 2022, West Java (Suhendrik et al, 2021), Seoul (Shon, 2021), and the US, Chinese and Taiwanese cities (Rudakowska & Simon, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The studies on multi-level governments' responses to the pandemic have been conducted by a few scholars (Böhm, 2021;Casula & Pazos-Vidal, 2021). The pandemic complicated the relationship of regions in the border areas as a cross-border cooperation "debordering"seen as a form of para-diplomacy -shifted to "re-bordering" policy (Böhm, 2021).…”

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“…The pandemic complicated the relationship of regions in the border areas as a cross-border cooperation "debordering"seen as a form of para-diplomacy -shifted to "re-bordering" policy (Böhm, 2021). Meanwhile, the roles of regional governments affected by existing political structures and dynamics contributed to the creation of national policy patterns in responding to the pandemic (Casula & Pazos-Vidal, 2021).…”

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City Leadership in Para-Diplomacy: Drivers of Jakarta’s International Engagement in Addressing Covid-19 Pandemic

Luerdi¹

2023

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The outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic has impacted all the world’s aspects, including the interactions among governments. While some either chose to be conflicting with others or overlooked the pandemic, the rest attempted to collaborate in addressing the new global threat. Mega-cities in many countries were the most suffering regions due to the enormous virus confirmed cases, deaths, and economic declines, intertwining with other urban issues. As the largest city in Southeast Asia and in Indonesia, Jakarta also experienced the unprecedented crisis. However, apart from the efforts to tackle the crisis at home, the city showed its international engagement in addressing the issue together with other world’s cities as its para-diplomacy. This research aimed to answer the driving factors encouraging the city for such engagement. This research employed the qualitive method with a descriptive analysis and the city leadership theory proposed by Rapoport, Acuto and Grcheva. This research found that the Jakarta’s international engagement in addressing the pandemic as the city leadership action was driven by the role of city leader, decentralization and global city networking, and the regional COVID-19 policies and internet representing three elements in the theory: actor, structures, and tools. This paper argues that cities within the global city networking have demonstrated their stronger role during the pandemic, providing opportunity for nation branding by regional initiatives in handling the pandemic in addition to state foreign policy. As cities have been more consolidated within the networks, seeing the city leadership in responding to global issues merits attentions among scholars.

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City Leadership in Para-Diplomacy: Drivers of Jakarta’s International Engagement in Addressing Covid-19 Pandemic

Luerdi¹

2023

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“…As the literature has repeatedly affirmed (see, among others: Capano, Howlett, et al, 2020; Colfer, 2020; Edwards & Ott, 2021; Sager & Mavrot, 2020), there is no single public administration area or activity that has not been changed or even forged by the Covid‐19 pandemic. In Italy, where the impact of the virus has been particularly early and pervasive (see, among others: Capano, 2020; Casula & Pazos‐Vidal, 2021; Malandrino & Demichelis, 2020), the government decided to appoint an Extraordinary Commissioner for the Covid‐19 Emergency (hereinafter Extraordinary Commissioner) from the very beginning of the crisis. This figure has been in charge of several crisis management functions including emergency public procurement of goods, services and works as well as, later, vaccinations.…”

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Exploring the link between administrative styles and policy output: The case of the Italian Extraordinary Commissioner for the Covid‐19 Emergency

Casula

Malandrino

2023

European Policy Analysis

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Administrative style is a central concept in public policy and administration research. Despite the developments in the field, less is known about the effect different administrative styles have on policy output. To contribute to filling this gap, the article offers an original framework to explore the link between administrative styles and policy output based on the consolidated distinction between functional and positional orientations as constitutive elements of administrative styles. This framework is applied to an under-investigated case of public organization in the Italian context, that is, the administrative apparatus headed by the Extraordinary Commissioner for the Covid-19 Emergency, to test the general hypothesis that what makes the difference in determining output performance is an administration's positional orientation, not only its functional one. Doing so, the article contributes to "second generation" administrative style research and provides a theoretical and analytical framework to be tested in future cross-national and cross-sectoral comparisons.

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“…Moreover, how governments deal with the COVID-19 crisis is becoming a major research stream worldwide ( 2 ). Different national and local governments have taken widely differing strategies ( 3 ) in pandemic response management owing to the differences in existing political structures and dynamics ( 4 ). Previous research has found that sub-national contributions to policy are more important than national-level policies ( 5 ), and it is crucial to study regional variations to unpack the different roles of and interactions between political culture, public policies, and citizens' level of compliance ( 6 ).…”

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Governmental Inter-sectoral Strategies to Prevent and Control COVID-19 in a Megacity: A Policy Brief From Shanghai, China

Jiang

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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This policy brief aims to help policymakers develop inter-sectoral interventions in megacities to prevent and control COVID-19. Based on the case of Changning District in Shanghai, China, several policy options are identified. The guiding principles include ensuring a coordinated national response (i.e., moderation is required in epidemic prevention and control); making science-based, precise, and differentiated epidemic control strategies; and establishing a joint prevention and control mechanism. Policy tools include localized management, closed-loop management, community grid management, digital management, and sub-population management. There is no “one size fits all” policy; however, it will be helpful to learn by trial and error through on-the-ground experience with minimal information in real time.

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Assessing the Multi-level Government Response to the COVID-19 Crisis: Italy and Spain Compared

Cited by 23 publications

References 46 publications

City Leadership in Para-Diplomacy: Drivers of Jakarta’s International Engagement in Addressing Covid-19 Pandemic

City Leadership in Para-Diplomacy: Drivers of Jakarta’s International Engagement in Addressing Covid-19 Pandemic

Exploring the link between administrative styles and policy output: The case of the Italian Extraordinary Commissioner for the Covid‐19 Emergency

Governmental Inter-sectoral Strategies to Prevent and Control COVID-19 in a Megacity: A Policy Brief From Shanghai, China

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