Crises, Policy Change, and Feedback Dynamics

Abstract

This panel examines how crises shape policy change and feedback dynamics over time, moving beyond short-term emergency responses. As such, it focuses on issues of conceptual definition, institutional adaptation, anticipatory governance and path dependence. Bringing together conceptual, theoretical, and empirical contributions, the papers analyse how different types of crises, sudden shocks, slow-burning threats, and transboundary disruptions are interpreted and translated into policy outcomes. Empirical contributions span across sustainability transitions, pandemic governance, institutional transformation and anticipatory governance across European and non-European contexts. Taken together, the panel advances a policy-feedback perspective on crises, showing that long-term change depends not only on crisis intensity but also on institutional legacies and the capacity to embed learning beyond the immediate emergency phase.

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From Emergency to Normality: How Crisis Governance Sacralizes the State in Turkey	View Paper Details
Path Dependence in Crisis: Historical Political Norms and Government Responses to COVID-19	View Paper Details
Unpacking Creeping and Transboundary Crises	View Paper Details
Making Sense of Shocks and Crises: Helpful or Disruptive for Sustainability Transitions?	View Paper Details
Thorny Opportunities: Crisis Management and Political Anticipation in the European Union	View Paper Details