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January 18, 2026Policy and SocietyOpen Access

Governing Crisis

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PZPhilippe ZittounPHPatrick HassenteufelFLFrédéric Lebaron

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Overview

The article reveals how crises affect governmental legitimacy, suggesting strategies for policy renewal during crises.

Key Points

  • This article examines how crises are defined and their impact on government legitimacy and policy strategies.
  • Constructivist framework analysis
  • Sociology of trials and discourse analysis
  • Empirical analysis of the French government's response to the subprime crisis (2007–2009)
  • Identified three governance modes: governing during crisis, governing the crisis, and governing by crisis.
  • Each mode corresponds to specific forms of delegitimization trials: epistemic, policymaking, and political.
  • Highlighted how crises are used by policymakers to redefine legitimacy and justify various strategies for governance.

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Zittoun et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/696c79cde45ebfc9113cd53fhttps://doi.org/10.1093/polsoc/puaf049
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