EU agencies' involvement in transboundary crisis response: Supporting efforts or leading coordination?

Jordana, Jacint; Triviño-Salazar, Juan Carlos

doi:10.1111/padm.12652

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“…Empirical evidence supports these theoretical assertions in terms of the responses of EU agencies to various transboundary crises (Jordana & Triviño-Salazar, 2020a;Kuipers & Boin, 2015), including the COVID-19 pandemic (Jordana & Triviño-Salazar, 2020b). Boin, Rhinard, and Ekengren (2014) noted that coordination (negotiating boundaries) and centralization (transcending boundaries) could perform an effective role in mitigating EU transboundary collaboration issues during periods of crisis.…”

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Obstacles to collective action during a crisis: A meta‐organizational perspective

Hartwell

Lawton

Tingbani

2023

European Management Review

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Meta‐organizations form to advance collective action. But collective action can be more difficult to coordinate for meta‐organizations comprising governmental agencies or sovereign states, with system‐level objectives often conflicting. These challenges can be more binding during a crisis, where the responses called for are outside of the original reason for the meta‐organization's existence. We advance a framework for conceptualizing meta‐organizations that focuses on both internal attributes and external perceptions and suggests how each may help or hinder meta‐organization influence during a crisis. Using as a case study the response of the European Union (EU) to COVID‐19 and, specifically, to air travel restrictions at the outbreak of the pandemic, we show how meta‐organizations can have difficulties in responding expeditiously to crises, particularly when encountering contradictory system‐level goals. We argue that meta‐organizations must plan for crises during less turbulent times, developing the processes that contribute to the gradual creation of new system‐level goals.

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Obstacles to collective action during a crisis: A meta‐organizational perspective

Hartwell

Lawton

Tingbani

2023

European Management Review

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“…Among these are factors associated with problematic organizational arrangements (structures, processes, plans, procedures, delegation of authority, administrative culture, etc. ), which can create difficulties with regard to cooperation, coordination, and policy attainment (Comfort et al, 2020 ; Jordana & Triviño‐Salazar, 2020 ; Kettl, 2003 ; Parker et al, 2009 ; Parker & Stern, 2002 ; Persson et al, 2017 ). In addition, archaic forms of intergovernmental relations, bureaucratic conflict, political infighting, and capacity loss can hinder or distort communication, information sharing, goal formation, and policy implementation (Kam, 1988 , pp.…”

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The Trump Administration and the COVID‐19 crisis: Exploring the warning‐response problems and missed opportunities of a public health emergency

Parker

Stern

2022

Public Administration

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This article examines the Trump Administration's inability to mount a timely and effective response to the COVID‐19 outbreak, despite ample warning. Through an empirical exploration guided by three explanatory perspectives—psychological, bureau‐organizational, and agenda‐political—developed from the strategic surprise, public administration, and crisis management literature, the authors seek to shed light on the mechanisms that contributed to the underestimation of the coronavirus threat by the Trump Administration and the slow and mismanaged federal response. The analysis highlights the extent to which the factors identified by previous studies of policy surprise and failure in other security domains are relevant for health security. The paper concludes by addressing the crucial role of executive leadership as an underlying factor in all three perspectives and discussing why the US president is ultimately responsible for ensuring a healthy policy process to guard against the pathologies implicated in the federal government's sub‐optimal response to the COVID‐19 crisis.

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“…7 In our research on the role of EU agencies in crisis episodes, we described how the low cooperation in public health issues within Europe severely hampered the involvement of the ECDC in the European response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak. 8 Although the massive dimensions of the current crisis are not comparable to the 2014 Ebola outbreak, the restrictive political mechanism at play previously shows what might be standing in the way of a coherent response to the COVID-19 pandemic.…”

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Where are the ECDC and the EU-wide responses in the COVID-19 pandemic?

Jordana

Triviño-Salazar

2020

The Lancet

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5Ferguson N, Laydon D, Nedjati-Gilani G, et al. Report 9: impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to reduce COVID-19 mortality and healthcare demand. March 16, 2020. https://www.imperial.ac.uk/ media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/ gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf (accessed April 1, 2020). 6 Dahab M, van Zandvoort K, Flasche S, et al. COVID-19 control in low-income settings and displaced populations: what can realistically be done? March 20, 2020. https://www.lshtm.ac. uk/newsevents/news/2020/covid-19-controllow-income-settings-and-displacedpopulations-what-can (accessed April 1, 2020).12 months of background mortality risk, averaged across all age groups. By contrast, in Malawi this risk is equivalent to 4 months of background mortality (appendix). This reflects higher background mortality rates in Malawi, underscoring the fragility of health under normal circumstances. Malawi (median age 17 years) also has relatively few older citizens, with 6•6% of the population older than 60 years. This makes alternative strategies potentially safer and more feasible than lockdown-eg, community-led approaches to support older people to self-isolate with provision of food, medicine, and wellbeing support. 6 Although we fully agree that macroeconomic arguments against lockdown cannot justify widespread loss of life in Europe and Asia, the considerations are very different in Africa, where lockdown could cost many lives. We urge African governments to carefully contextualise safe physical distancing policies that maximise likely benefits. Without a context-specific, ethical approach to physical distancing, unintended harms from stringent lockdown could pose more harm than the direct effects of COVID-19 itself.We declare no competing interests.

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EU agencies' involvement in transboundary crisis response: Supporting efforts or leading coordination?

Cited by 16 publications

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Obstacles to collective action during a crisis: A meta‐organizational perspective

Obstacles to collective action during a crisis: A meta‐organizational perspective

The Trump Administration and the COVID‐19 crisis: Exploring the warning‐response problems and missed opportunities of a public health emergency

Where are the ECDC and the EU-wide responses in the COVID-19 pandemic?

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