Executive Leadership, Institutional Coordination, and Crisis Governance

Abstract

This panel examines how crises reshape executive leadership, institutional coordination, and governance capacity across national and multilevel systems. Anchored in research on economic crises, natural disasters, and systemic risks, contributions analyse how executives mobilise authority, coordinate across territorial levels, and manage tensions between centralisation and institutional diversity. The panel’s contributions combine diverse methods to explore the conditions under which crisis governance enhances effectiveness and resilience, while also outlining incidents of coordination failure and short-lived institutional change. Taken together, the panel shows that crises act as critical junctures for governance systems, while also demonstrating that durable capacity-building depends on institutional design, leadership strategies, and the ability to embed learning and prevention beyond the immediate emergency phase.

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Executive Leadership and the Economic Crisis Management in Greece (2010-2018)	View Paper Details
The Prevention Cycle: State Investments in Preventing System Risks Over Time	View Paper Details
From Bottleneck to Boost? Vertical Policy-Process Integration and Crisis Management Performance	View Paper Details
When Territorial Structures Fail: An Analytical Framework for Crisis Management Leadership in Multilevel Systems	View Paper Details
From Crisis to Capacity: Comparing Subnational Crisis Governance and Resilience Building in the EU	View Paper Details