Public administration and politics meet turbulence: The search for robust governance responses

Public governance has always been challenged by turbulence, defined as “situations where events, demands, and support interact and change in highly variable, inconsistent, unexpected or unpredictable ways” (Ansell instead, turbulence describes a state in which change is sudden, surprising and difficult to understand or track. It describes a world where we must deal with multiple, simultaneous changes, each demanding our immediate attention, often creating contradictions and dilemmas. Adaptation to turbulence can be like a group of strangers rapidly assembling a puzzle, where the picture is blurry and the pieces fit together poorly. While crises, speed, and political conflict are by no means novel challenges for public administration, our existing theories and analytical perspectives treat them as peripheral and exceptional rather than central and commonplace. 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