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The future of public management as we emerge from the acute phase of COVID-19: key themes and future trajectories

In: Research Handbook on Public Management and COVID-19

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  • Sophie Yates
  • Janine O’Flynn
  • Helen Dickinson
  • Catherine Smith

Abstract

The global pandemic reshaped the lives of people worldwide and has also challenged the field of public management. In this book, authors from around the world have explored a range of important topics and questions, bringing to the forefront critical public management issues. Here, we draw on these contributions to focus on six cross-cutting themes that position us to think about the future of the field: the implications of operating in a world increasingly marked by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA); central trade-offs and tensions raised by governing during the pandemic; what the pandemic has revealed about government capacity; who is talking and who is listened to during the pandemic era; entrenched disadvantages revealed and exacerbated by COVID-19; and temporality and our ability to plan for protracted crises. We reinforce our argument that the COVID-19 pandemic offers an opportunity for the field of public management to reflect and reorient.

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  • Sophie Yates & Janine O’Flynn & Helen Dickinson & Catherine Smith, 2024. "The future of public management as we emerge from the acute phase of COVID-19: key themes and future trajectories," Chapters, in: Helen Dickinson & Sophie Yates & Janine O’Flynn & Catherine Smith (ed.), Research Handbook on Public Management and COVID-19, chapter 27, pages 354-368, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:21210_27
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