Crisis Policymaking in the EU : The COVID-19 Crisis and the Refugee Crisis 2015-16 Compared / Hanspeter Kriesi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kriesi, Hanspeter, author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in European politics.

Cambridge elements. Elements in European politics ;

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

COVID-19 (Disease)--Government policy.

COVID-19 (Disease).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (87 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Crisis Policymaking in the EU

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Summary:

This Element compares crisis-specific policymaking, its causes and consequences, at the two levels of the EU polity during the COVID-19 and the refugee crisis 2015-16. In both crises, EU policymaking responded to exogenous pressure and was dominated by executive decision-making. Still, it also differed in three critical aspects: it was much more salient, consensual, and effective during the COVID-19 than the refugee crisis. The present study accounts for both similarities and differences, which it attempts to explain by features of the nature of the crises. The key argument of the study is that the policymaking process during crises is, to a large extent, determined by the crisis situation - the crisis-specific functional problem pressure, the institutional context (of the EU polity), and the corresponding political pressure at the origin of a given crisis. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core

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ISBN:

9781009549486

1009549480

9781009549479

1009549472

9781009549462

1009549464