European Civil Security Governance

Bossong, Raphael; Hegemann, Hendrik

doi:10.1057/9781137481115

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Organizing for Societal Security and Crisis Management: Governance Capacity and Legitimacy

Christensen

Lægreid

Rykkja

2018

New Security Challenges

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Dealing with crisis is a main responsibility of governments and public sector executives but at the same time major crises test the limits of what bureaucratic public administration is designed to do (Boin, Ekengren and Rhinard, 2013). Thus crisis management is a core government responsibility that is difficult to fulfill (Boin et al., 2016), but governance capacity is a necessary precondition. Governance capacity deals primarily with aspects of formal structural and procedural features of the administrative apparatus, and Lodge and Wegrich (2014) see this capacity as consisting of coordination, regulation, analytical and delivery elements. Societal security and crisis management represent a "wicked problem" where coordination between actors and organizations with different tasks and perceptions is crucial

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Organizing for Societal Security and Crisis Management: Governance Capacity and Legitimacy

Christensen

Lægreid

Rykkja

2018

New Security Challenges

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Deferring substance: EU policy and the information threat

Ördén¹

2019

Intelligence and National Security

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The article describes EU cross-sectoral policy work on online information threats, focusing on the intersection between values and 'referent objects'. Examining discussions on strategic communication, censorship, media literacy and media pluralism, two value-perspectives were identified: while abstract procedural values of efficiency and coherence guide content management in the security/defence/internet communities, media/education communities highlight the end-goals of content pluralism and enhanced citizen judgement. In implementation, the former's lack of substantive goals, coupled with an outsourcing of content management, may give rise to hybrid values. The findings highlight the danger of neglecting substance in favor of efficient management of an online 'battlespace'.

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