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Modern societies are regularly confronted with complex and critical episodes such as financial breakdowns, terrorism, natural disasters and cyber threats, which pose difficult challenges to governments. Featuring updated coverage and examples, this new edition describes the challenges of crisis management and offers an approach to understand and prepare for them.

Table of Contents
Introduction; 1. Managing crises: five strategic leadership tasks; 2. Sense making: grasping crises as they unfold; 3. Decision making and coordinating: shaping the crisis response; 4. Meaning making: constructing a crisis narrative; 5. To end a crisis: managing accountability; 6. Learning and changing: from the crisis to reform; 7. How to deal with crisis: lessons for prudent leadership.

The Politics of Crisis Management Public Leadership under Pressure

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      Publisher: Cambridge University Press
      Publication Date: 12/1/2016 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781107118461, 978-1107118461
      ISBN10: 1107118468
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      Comparative politics Political leaders and leadership

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Modern societies are regularly confronted with complex and critical episodes such as financial breakdowns, terrorism, natural disasters and cyber threats, which pose difficult challenges to governments. Featuring updated coverage and examples, this new edition describes the challenges of crisis management and offers an approach to understand and prepare for them.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction; 1. Managing crises: five strategic leadership tasks; 2. Sense making: grasping crises as they unfold; 3. Decision making and coordinating: shaping the crisis response; 4. Meaning making: constructing a crisis narrative; 5. To end a crisis: managing accountability; 6. Learning and changing: from the crisis to reform; 7. How to deal with crisis: lessons for prudent leadership.

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