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This volume examines three interconnected themes in political science: the nuts and bolts of government, the complex and evolving relationship between politics and administration, and continuity and change in government. Government ministries and agencies are vital components of the executive branch of government that play fundamental roles in the democratic governing of modern societies. Contemporary public administration is conventionally portrayed as being based on a series of dichotomies: politics versus administration, coordination versus fragmentation, integration versus disintegration, trust versus distrust, etc. As an alternative, this volume, which is composed of a series of case studies from the Nordics and beyond, conceptualises and empirically demonstrates how government bodies at different levels of governance are driven by pragmatism characterised by the co-existence of multiple decision-making premises. To account for the composite aspect of government, this volume illustrates how institutional and organisational factors can structure elements in the policymaking process and how these elements are powerful tools available to purposeful design

Universities are under increasing pressure to help promote socio-economic growth in their local communities. However until now, no systematic, critical attention has been paid to the factors and mechanisms that currently make this process so daunting. In Universities and Regional Development, scholars from Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia critically address this knowledge gap, focusing on policy, organization, and the role of individual actors to uncover the challenges facing higher education institutions as they seek to engage with their regions. In a systematic and comparative manner, this book shows internal and external audiences why, how, and when the institutionalization of universities' "third missions" should take place.

There is a general tendency amongst policy and certain academic circles to assume that universities are simple strategic actors capable and willing to respond to a well-articulated set of regional demands. In reality, however, universities are extremely complex organizations that operate in highly institutionalized environments and are susceptible to regulative shifts, resource dependencies, and fluctuations in student numbers. Understanding universities' contributions—and capacities to contribute—to regional development and innovation requires understanding these internal dynamics and how they interact with external environmental agents. Based on a comparative study across various national settings and regional contexts, the chapter highlights the types of tensions and volitions that universities face while attempting to fulfil their "third mission." Building upon the existing literature and novel empirical insights, the chapter advances a new conceptual model for opening the "black box" of the university-region interface and disentangling the impacts of purposive, political efforts to change universities' internal fabrics and to institutionalize the regional mission.

1. Resilience in organizations and societies: the state of the art and three organizing principles for moving forward -- 2. Decision premises, learning and organizational resilience addressing novel adversities -- 3. Installing an action space for resilience in surprising situations -- 4. Building resilience in temporary organizations: Lessons from a shipyard -- 5. A practical perspective on resilience in organizations: The interplay between structure and action -- 6. Growing and adapting during continuous change: Building employee resilience in the public sector -- 7. The Post-Entrepreneurial University: The Case for Resilience in Higher Education -- 8. Organizational persistence in highly institutionalized environments: Unpacking the relation between identity and resilience -- 9. Resilience and change in opera theaters: Traveling the edge of tradition and contemporaneity -- 10. Being resilient between the region and the higher education system? Regional higher education institutions in Kuressaare, Estonia, and Seinäjoki, Finland -- 11. Agency, institutions and regional resilience: An approach from the Basque region -- 12. Towards Resilient Organisations and Societies? Reflections on the Multifaceted Nature of Resilience.

This open access book brings together scholars in the fields of management, public policy, regional studies, and organization theory around the concept of resilience. The aim is to provide a more holistic understanding of the complex phenomenon of resilience from a multi-sectorial, cross-national, and multidisciplinary perspective. The book facilitates a conversation across diverse disciplinary specializations and empirical domains. The authors contribute both to theory testing and theory development and provide key empirical insights useful for societies, organizations, and individuals experiencing disruptive pressures, not least in the context of a post-COVID-19 world. Diverse chapters are held together by a clear organization of the volume across levels of analysis (resilience in organizations and societies) and by an original perspective on resilience derived from an extended review, by the editors, of the existing literature and knowledge gaps, according to which each of the individual chapter contributions is positioned and connected to.

Section 1: Setting the Stage -- Chapter 1: Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on the institutional fabric of Higher Education -- Section 2: The System's Responses to COVID-19 -- Chapter 2: Evidence, stakeholders and decision making: managing COVID-19 in Irish Higher education -- Chapter 3: New actors, administrative measures and conflicting agendas: The impact of the pandemic on internationalisation of higher education in Poland and Russia -- Chapter 4: Highlighting systemic inequalities: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on French Higher Education -- Chapter 5: Higher education institutions responses to COVID-19 in Uganda: Regulatory tools and adaptive institutions -- Section 3: Higher Education Institutions' Responses to COVID-19 -- Chapter 6: Higher Education in Brazil: Institutional actions for the retention of students in public and private sectors -- Chapter 7: Higher Education in Brazil: Institutional actions for the retention of students in public and private sectors -- Chapter 8: Internationalization of higher education in Argentina upon the arrival of Covid-19: Reactions and lessons from the perspective of International Relations Office -- Chapter 9: University-civic engagement in the time of the pandemic -- Chapter 10: Public Service Resilience in a post-COVID-19 world: The Case of Digital Transformation in Higher Education -- Chapter 11: Entrepreneurial universities: From research groups to spin-off companies in a time of COVID-19 -- Section 4: Actors' Responses to COVID-19 -- Chapter 12: Challenges, Opportunities, and Coping Strategies when Faced with the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study of Academics in Mainland China and Hong Kong -- Chapter 13: "We shouldn't let academia exhaust ourselves anymore!": Pandemic practices and the changing psychological contract in twenty-first century academia -- Chapter 14: Moving beyond policy on digital transformation: Perceptions of digital transformation of teaching by academic staff and students -- Chapter 15: Remote Universities? Impacts of COVID-19 as experienced by academic leaders in Finland between March 2020 and April 2021 -- Chapter 16: Post-COVID-19: Renegotiating the scope, role, and function of support and development for students in higher education across the globe -- Section 5: Taking Stock and Moving Forward -- Chapter 17: Epilogue: COVID-19 and the institutional fabric of higher education.

This open access book assesses how the Covid-19 pandemic caught higher education systems throughout the world by surprise. It maps out the responses of higher education institutions to the challenges and strategic opportunities brought about by the pandemic, and examines the effects such responses may have. Bringing together scholars and case studies from Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, the book is both comparative and global in nature. It also brings together researchers from a variety of disciplinary fields, including political scientists, historians, economists, sociologist, and anthropologists. In doing so, the book fosters an inter-disciplinary dialogue and inclusive methodological approach for unpacking the complexities associated with modern higher education systems and institutions.

"This book provides an understanding of how public organizations adapt to and manage situations characterized by fluidity, ambiguity, complexity and unclear technologies, thus exploring public governance in times of turbulence. An impressive selection of scholars present their research on governance in turbulent times and explore how public organizations adapt flexibly in turbulent situations. The editors introduce a diverse analytical toolkit contributing not only to an understanding of the role of complexity in public governance, but also suggesting how organizational formats may serve as usable design tools available to decision-makers in the pursuit of sustainable and responsible governance. Chapters explore a variety of topics and cases including artificial intelligence, antimicrobial resistance and sexuality education. Providing a broad coverage of empirical cases and a global outlook, this book will be an excellent read for scholars and practitioners in the political science and public administration, as well as policy makers with interests in governance, leadership and citizen engagement."--

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