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"This book is a collective journal of the COVID-19 pandemic. With first-hand accounts of the pandemic as it unfolded, it explores the social and the political through the lens of the outbreak. Featuring contributors located in India, USA, Brazil, UK, Germany, and Bulgaria, the book presents us with simultaneous, multiple histories of our time. The volume documents the beginning of social distancing and lockdown measures adopted by countries around the word and analyses how these bore upon prevailing social conditions in specific locations. It presents the authors' personal observations in a lucid conversational style as they reflect on themes such as the reorganization of political debates and issues, the experience of the marginalized, theodicy, government policy responses, and shifts into digital space under lockdown, all of these under an overarching narrative of the healthcare and economic crisis facing the world. A unique and engaging contribution, this book will be useful to students and researchers of sociology, public health, political economy, public policy, and comparative politics. It will also appeal to general readers interested in pandemic literature"--

"We were gratified and somewhat surprised at the success of the first edition of Theorizing Crisis Communication. Although we believed a summary of crisis theory was important, we also assumed that crisis communication remained a relatively specialized area of communication research. The success of the first edition demonstrated that crisis communication is recognized as a critical area of practice for individuals, organizations, communities, and society at large and is becoming increasingly mainstream. The second edition of Theorizing Crisis Communication reviews a larger body of theory reflective of the continuous growth in crisis communication scholarship. In addition to the discussion of more theories in all chapters, this edition includes new chapters on theory formation, social media, and applications of theory, as well as expanded treatment of technology, resilience, and risk, among others."--

In Europe, the last decade has been shaped by euro crisis, migration crisis and corona crisis. Studies have analyzed how citizens react to crises in their voting behavior. This political economy analysis examines the research gap to what extent repeated crisis exposure within a short period of time can deepen existing Euroskepticism. It is defined as an index consisting of the individual identification as European, the view on the EU and on own country's benefits of EU membership. Survey results of the Eurobarometer of all 28 EU member states, including the United Kingdom, in combination with macroeconomic data are analyzed using modern econometric methods. Bootstrapping and entropy balancing ensure conservative estimates. We find that a single crisis exposure increases existing Euroskepticism, but that the temporal distance between the crises matters. The impact of a crisis on the current situation marginalizes with its temporal distance. Furthermore, a hysteresis-like effect occurs: After the crisis ends, the Euroskepticism level does not go back to its pre-crisis level. Especially today, when (Western) democracy is under attack from many sides, this work extends the understanding of the influence of crises on political behavior aiming to derive recommendations how to act in the future.

Crises including the COVID-19 pandemic have caused disruptive changes to many industries and supply chains around the world. Their severe impacts on business and the economy provide an opportunity to increase preparedness and reveal the importance of implementing a collaborative supply chain risk management process. This paper uses a bibliometric analysis based on a co-citation analysis to reveal the research areas and gaps concerning collaborative supply chain risk management with a focus on crisis situations. Using a structured approach based on Soni and Kodali (2011) and Gmür (2003), 269 papers were extracted from the database Web of Science (WOS) using a specific search string. Data filtering and preparation using title, abstract, and full paper screening, as well as the number of cited-in references, led to a final sum of 50 papers. These papers were prepared for the co-citation analysis based on a co-citation matrix that served as an input for the Organizational Risk Analyzer (ORA) software. The cluster analysis was carried out in the ORA software with a threshold of 0.01, and based on that, five clusters were extracted from the network. Extracted main research areas include collaboration approaches and criteria as well as decision-making approaches and lessons learned from COVID-19. Research gaps and suggested future research areas are presented based on the clusters analysis.