Overview
- Discusses EU civil protection cooperation as a crucial case for investigating which factors facilitate or hinder effective EU action in the quest to protect its citizens
- Generates new empirical evidence on the actual functioning of EU civil protection cooperation from interviews and a survey of 670 officials working with civil protection in seventeen member states
- Analyses EU civil protection cooperation through the prisms of administrative culture and social capital and provides evidence on the effectiveness and legitimacy of the EU’s efforts in this area
Part of the book series: European Administrative Governance (EAGOV)
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“This fine team of academics moves beyond mere descriptions of capacities, structures and processes to explain the effectiveness of Civil Protection in the EU. With their exploration of trust as a key factor, they deliver the best book so far on this critical topic.”
—Arjen Boin, Leiden University, the Netherlands
“Grounded in unique and voluminous fieldwork within the EU’s nascent community of civil protection practitioners and mechanisms, this timely study shows us that interpersonal and professional trust rooted in collegiate relationships is pivotal for bridging the different policy styles embedded in member states’ administrative cultures and building much-needed cohesive, effective and resilient European crisis management capacity. A gem for crisis management and EU scholars alike.”
—Paul ‘t Hart, Utrecht University and Netherlands School of Public Administration, the Netherlands
The EU and its member states have committed themselves to the protection of their citizens, and a Europe that protects must be able to respond effectively when disaster strikes. Utilizing unique survey data and interviews in nineteen EU member states, this book treats civil protection and crisis management as crucial cases for investigating which factors—such as trust, public-administration culture, and public-administration structure—facilitate or hinder effective EU cooperation. In addition to investigating the main divides and unifying patterns of cooperation that exist among the EU member states, the authors combine knowledge from crisis management studies together with insights from public and social capital studies to examine to what extent so-called ‘software factors’, such as culture, trust, and norms, matter for achieving effective civil protection cooperation and crisis management.
—Arjen Boin, Leiden University, the Netherlands
“Grounded in unique and voluminous fieldwork within the EU’s nascent community of civil protection practitioners and mechanisms, this timely study shows us that interpersonal and professional trust rooted in collegiate relationships is pivotal for bridging the different policy styles embedded in member states’ administrative cultures and building much-needed cohesive, effective and resilient European crisis management capacity. A gem for crisis management and EU scholars alike.”
—Paul ‘t Hart, Utrecht University and Netherlands School of Public Administration, the Netherlands
The EU and its member states have committed themselves to the protection of their citizens, and a Europe that protects must be able to respond effectively when disaster strikes. Utilizing unique survey data and interviews in nineteen EU member states, this book treats civil protection and crisis management as crucial cases for investigating which factors—such as trust, public-administration culture, and public-administration structure—facilitate or hinder effective EU cooperation. In addition to investigating the main divides and unifying patterns of cooperation that exist among the EU member states, the authors combine knowledge from crisis management studies together with insights from public and social capital studies to examine to what extent so-called ‘software factors’, such as culture, trust, and norms, matter for achieving effective civil protection cooperation and crisis management.
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Keywords
- European Union
- civil protection
- crisis management
- cooperation
- social capital
- software factors
- EU countries
- DG ECHO
- methodological issues
- administrative culture
- Emergency Response Coordination Centre (ERCC)
- effectiveness
- performance
- professionalism
- hierarchy
- civil-protection agencies
- social trust
- institutional trust
- professional judgement
- autonomy
- european union politics
Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Sten Widmalm is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden.
Charles F. Parker is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Department of Government and Center for Natural Disaster Science, Uppsala University, Sweden.
Thomas Persson is Associate Professor of Political Science and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden.
Charles F. Parker is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Department of Government and Center for Natural Disaster Science, Uppsala University, Sweden.
Thomas Persson is Associate Professor of Political Science and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Civil Protection Cooperation in the European Union
Book Subtitle: How Trust and Administrative Culture Matter for Crisis Management
Authors: Sten Widmalm, Charles F. Parker, Thomas Persson
Series Title: European Administrative Governance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02858-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-02857-2Published: 06 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-02858-9Published: 20 February 2019
Series ISSN: 2524-7263
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7271
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 200
Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Public Policy, European Union Politics, Citizenship, Governance and Government, Comparative Politics