Collaborative governance challenges of the COVID-19 pandemics : Czech Republic and Slovakia

Klimovský, Daniel (author), Maly, Ivan (author), Nemec, Juraj (author)

The goal of this article is to evaluate what the Czech and Slovak governments have done to protect their countries and try to assess why they have achieved different results for the first and second waves of the Covid-19 pandemic. The basis for such evaluation is the concept of collaborative governance, while qualitative research methods are used to achieve this goal. Based on comprehensive case studies and following analysis, the article suggests that in countries with limited quality of collaborative governance and no experience in similar pandemics, short-term "ultramobilisation" and positive results are indeed possible, but failures are non-avoidable in the long run. During the second wave of the pandemic, the weaknesses in governance resulted in massive governance failures. As a result, the governments' responses delivered very limited results in terms of prevalence of Covid-19.

• Language: English
• Keywords: collaborative governance, Covid-19, Czech Republic (Czechia), Slovakia
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FU - Faculty of Administration
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2021
• Number of pages: Str. 85-106
• Numbering: Vol. 19, no. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-128549
• UDC: 35(437.3)(437.6)
• ISSN on article: 2591-2240
• DOI: 10.17573/cepar.2021.1.04
• COBISS.SI-ID: 67570435

Note

Povzetek v slov. jeziku se nahaja na koncu revije, na str. 284-285.

• Publication date in RUL: 19.07.2021

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Central European public administration review
• Shortened title: CEPAR
• Publisher: Fakulteta za upravo
• ISSN: 2591-2240
• COBISS.SI-ID: 293849600

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 20.04.2021

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Izzivi pandemije covida-19 za sodelovalno upravljanje : Češka in Slovaška

Abstract

Namen članka je ugotoviti, kako sta češka in slovaška vlada zaščitili svoje države, ter presoditi, zakaj sta v prvem in drugem valu pandemije covida-19 dosegli različne rezultate. Tovrstna presoja temelji na konceptu sodelovalnega upravljanja, uporabljena pa je bila kvalitativna raziskovalna metoda. Na podlagi obsežnih študij primera in analize avtorji ugotavljajo, da so v državah z omejeno kakovostjo sodelovalnega upravljanja in brez izkušenj s podobnimi pandemijami kratkoročna "ultra-mobilizacija" in pozitivni rezultati sicer mogoči, vendar na daljši rok niso izključeni neuspehi. V drugem valu pandemije je namreč oslabljeno upravljanje privedlo do množičnih neuspehov. Posledično so rezultati vladnih odzivov na razširjenost covida-19 precej omejeni.

• Keywords: sodelovalno upravljanje, covid-19, Češka, Slovaška

Projects

• Funder: Other - Other funder or multiple funders
• Funding programme: Czech Science Foundation
• Project number: GA19-06020S