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Hermansson, Helena
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Lindholm, J., Carlsson, T., Albrecht, F. & Hermansson, H. (2023). Communicating Covid-19 on social media: Analysing the use of Twitter and Instagram by Nordic health authorities and prime ministers. In: Bengt Johansson; Øyvind Ihlen; Jenny Lindholm; Mark Blach-Ørsten (Ed.), Communicating a pandemic: Crisis management and Covid-19 in the Nordic countries (pp. 149-172). Göteborg: Nordicom
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Communicating Covid-19 on social media: Analysing the use of Twitter and Instagram by Nordic health authorities and prime ministers
2023 (English)In: Communicating a pandemic: Crisis management and Covid-19 in the Nordic countries / [ed] Bengt Johansson; Øyvind Ihlen; Jenny Lindholm; Mark Blach-Ørsten, Göteborg: Nordicom, 2023, p. 149-172Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This chapter analyses how Nordic health authorities and prime ministers used social media during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. The research questions address the extent to which they interacted with other actors on social media and what communication objectives they pursued in messages to the public. The data consists of health authorities’ Twitter communication and prime ministers’ Instagram posts. The results show that both the health authorities and prime ministers primarily interacted internally with domestic governmental and administrative actors. Still, they pursued different communication objectives. Whereas the health authorities mainly instructed the public on how to act, the prime ministers provided support and appealed for solidarity. National differences are observed. The Danish case stands out, as both the national health authority and the prime minister clearly focused on communicating support to the public.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Göteborg: Nordicom, 2023
Keywords
crisis communication, social media, health authorities, political leaders, communicating Covid-19
National Category
Media and Communications
Research subject
Leadership and Command & Control; Political Science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-11955 (URN)10.48335/9789188855688-7 (DOI)9789188855671 (ISBN)978-91-88855-68-8 (ISBN)
Available from: 2023-11-24 Created: 2023-11-24 Last updated: 2024-01-03Bibliographically approved
Hermansson, H. (2023). Decentralization and Recentralization of Disaster Management in Turkey (2ed.). In: Ali Farazmand (Ed.), Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance: (pp. 2961-2968). Cham: Springer
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Decentralization and Recentralization of Disaster Management in Turkey
2023 (English)In: Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance / [ed] Ali Farazmand, Cham: Springer, 2023, 2, p. 2961-2968Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Cham: Springer, 2023 Edition: 2
Keywords
Collaboration, Collaborative disaster management, Disaster management, Disaster risk reduction, Political-administrative system, State-society relations
National Category
Political Science
Research subject
Leadership and Command & Control
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-11957 (URN)10.1007/978-3-030-66252-3_3461 (DOI)978-3-030-66251-6 (ISBN)978-3-030-66252-3 (ISBN)
Available from: 2023-11-24 Created: 2023-11-24 Last updated: 2024-03-05Bibliographically approved
Parker, C. F., Nohrstedt, D., Baird, J., Hermansson, H., Rubin, O. & Baekkeskov, E. (2020). Collaborative crisis management: a plausibility probe of core assumptions. Policy & Society: Journal of public, foreign and global policy, 39(4), 510-529
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Collaborative crisis management: a plausibility probe of core assumptions
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2020 (English)In: Policy & Society: Journal of public, foreign and global policy, ISSN 1449-4035, E-ISSN 1839-3373, Vol. 39, no 4, p. 510-529Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In this article, we utilize the Collaborative Governance Databank to empirically explore core theoretical assumptions about collaborative governance in the context of crisis management. By selecting a subset of cases involving episodes or situations characterized by the combination of urgency, threat, and uncertainty, we conduct a plausibility probe to garner insights into a number of central assumptions and dynamics fundamental to understanding collaborative crisis management. Although there is broad agreement among academics and practitioners that collaboration is essential for managing complex risks and events that no single actor can handle alone, in the literature, there are several unresolved claims and uncertainties regarding many critical aspects of collaborative crisis management. Assumptions investigated in the article relate to starting-points and triggers for collaboration, level of collaboration, goal-formulation, adaptation, involvement and role of non-state actors, and the prevalence and impact of political infighting. The results confirm that crises represent rapidly moving and dynamic events that raise the need for adaptation, adjustment, and innovation by diverse sets of participants. We also find examples of successful behaviours where actors managed, despite challenging conditions, to effectively contain conflict, formulate and achieve shared goals, adapt to rapidly changing situations and emergent structures, and innovate in response to unforeseen problems.

Keywords
collaborative governance, crisis management, comparative case-studies, extreme events, disasters
National Category
Public Administration Studies
Research subject
Ledarskap under påfrestande förhållanden
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-9821 (URN)10.1080/14494035.2020.1767337 (DOI)000535080000001 ()
Available from: 2021-03-31 Created: 2021-03-31 Last updated: 2021-11-09Bibliographically approved
Hermansson, H. (2020). Collaborative Crisis Management in Turkey: Perceptions and Outcomes of Collaboration During Two Earthquakes. In: Fredrik Bynander, Daniel Nohrstedt (Ed.), Collaborative Crisis Management: Inter-Organizational Approaches to Extreme Events (pp. 80-91). Routledge
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Collaborative Crisis Management in Turkey: Perceptions and Outcomes of Collaboration During Two Earthquakes
2020 (English)In: Collaborative Crisis Management: Inter-Organizational Approaches to Extreme Events / [ed] Fredrik Bynander, Daniel Nohrstedt, Routledge, 2020, p. 80-91Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

In an effort to address some of the current knowledge gaps in the literature on collaborative crisis management, this chapter explores the nature and development of the political-administrative system in Turkey and the role some of its attributes played for collaboration during the response to two earthquakes in southeast Turkey in 2011. In particular, the chapter investigates how state-society relationships, political conflicts, and intergovernmental relations influenced stakeholder collaboration during the earthquake response. In order to capture how the actors perceived collaboration and how they organized their collaborative activities, interviews were conducted with state officials from varying administrative levels, municipality and NGO representatives as well as village and neighborhood leaders, all of whom were involved in managing the earthquake disasters. By applying a general collaborative governance framework, this chapter attempts to shed light on the perceptions of collaboration in Turkey’s political-administrative system and the role it plays for collaboration. Two components of this framework are in particular focus: the drivers (i.e. uncertainty, interdependence, initiating leadership, and consequential incentives) and the “system context” (socio-economic and cultural characteristics) as well as the interplay between them. This chapter illustrates that there are evident differences across political-administrative systems regarding the conditions for collaboration, who is engaged in such activities, and what collaborations can realistically achieve. The chapter highlights that there needs to be a greater recognition of how these conditions for collaboration, and collaboration itself, may differ in various settings. Also, research should pay close attention to meanings and values that actors in these varying political-administrative systems ascribe to collaboration, as these too affect the outcomes of such activities.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Routledge, 2020
National Category
Public Administration Studies
Research subject
Ledarskap under påfrestande förhållanden
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-9813 (URN)9780367148560 (ISBN)9780429244308 (ISBN)9780367148522 (ISBN)
Available from: 2021-03-23 Created: 2021-03-23 Last updated: 2021-03-30Bibliographically approved
Hermansson, H. (2020). Decentralization and Recentralization of Disaster Management in Turkey. In: Ali Farazmand (Ed.), Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance: (pp. 1-7). Cham: Springer
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Decentralization and Recentralization of Disaster Management in Turkey
2020 (English)In: Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance / [ed] Ali Farazmand, Cham: Springer, 2020, p. 1-7Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Cham: Springer, 2020
National Category
Public Administration Studies
Research subject
Ledarskap under påfrestande förhållanden
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-9814 (URN)10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3461-1 (DOI)978-3-319-31816-5 (ISBN)
Note

Living edition.

First Online: 12 March 2020.

Available from: 2021-03-23 Created: 2021-03-23 Last updated: 2021-06-17Bibliographically approved
Bondesson, S., Bynander, F. & Hermansson, H. (2019). Att samverka i kris: vanliga människor i ovanliga situationer (1ed.). Lund: Nordic Academic Press
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Att samverka i kris: vanliga människor i ovanliga situationer
2019 (Swedish)Book (Refereed)
Abstract [sv]

I Att samverka i kris möter vi människor som i akuta krissituationer ställs inför olika samarbetsproblem och dilemman. Deras historier berättas i skönlitterär form och illustrerar inlevelsefullt mellanmänskligt samspel i krislägen. Berättelserna levandegör de efterföljande analyserna och teoretiskt förankrade resonemangen där författarna kartlägger och belyser problematik och trångmål som uppstår under kritiska omständigheter.

Stoffet i skildringarna är empiriskt material från verkliga situationer som terrordåd och skogsbränder, och författarna har lagt sig vinn om att på ett pedagogiskt sätt visa på de utmaningar som kan uppstå vid samverkan i krissituationer. De analyserar händelseförloppen med hjälp av forskningsrön och beskriver också det svenska förvaltningssystemets betydelse för respektive krissituation. På så vis får läsaren även med sig kunskaper om det svenska krisberedskapssystemet. Boken lämpar sig för studenter, yrkesverksamma och andra med intresse för krishantering, krisberedskap och samverkan.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2019. p. 153 Edition: 1
Keywords
krishantering, krisberedskap, samverkan
National Category
Political Science Other Social Sciences Public Administration Studies
Research subject
Statsvetenskap med inriktning mot krishantering och internationell samverkan; Ledarskap under påfrestande förhållanden
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-8871 (URN)9789188909428 (ISBN)
Projects
Ledning och samverkan
Funder
Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency
Available from: 2019-12-17 Created: 2019-12-17 Last updated: 2021-03-23Bibliographically approved
Hermansson, H. (2019). Disaster Response in Turkey: Conditions Promoting Cross-Sectoral Collaboration and Implications for Effectiveness. Administration & Society, 51(7), 1051-1078
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Disaster Response in Turkey: Conditions Promoting Cross-Sectoral Collaboration and Implications for Effectiveness
2019 (English)In: Administration & Society, ISSN 0095-3997, E-ISSN 1552-3039, Vol. 51, no 7, p. 1051-1078Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Local and civil society can play decisive roles in disaster response. Yet, the disaster management literature is unclear regarding the conditions that enable cross-sectoral collaboration. Using a collaborative governance framework and 44 semi-structured interviews, this study investigates how trust, pre-existing relations, interdependence, knowledge, and resources affect cross-sectoral collaboration during disaster response in Turkey. The results illustrate how these factors interact with system context factors, like political compatibility, to facilitate or hinder cross-sectoral collaboration. The study concludes that cross-sectoral collaboration is no panacea for successful disaster response but empirical examples suggest that cross-sectoral collaboration can contribute to reducing suboptimal disaster response.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Sage Publications, 2019
Keywords
cross-sectoral collaboration, collaborative governance, disaster response, local and civil society actors, political compatibility, Turkey
National Category
Public Administration Studies
Research subject
Statsvetenskap med inriktning mot krishantering och internationell samverkan
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-6357 (URN)10.1177/0095399716680058 (DOI)
Available from: 2016-12-15 Created: 2016-12-13 Last updated: 2022-01-16Bibliographically approved
Hermansson, H. (2018). Challenges to Decentralization of Disaster Management in Turkey: The Role of Political-Administrative Context. International Journal of Public Administration, 42(5), 417-431
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Challenges to Decentralization of Disaster Management in Turkey: The Role of Political-Administrative Context
2018 (English)In: International Journal of Public Administration, ISSN 0190-0692, E-ISSN 1532-4265, Vol. 42, no 5, p. 417-431Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Global disaster policy frameworks promote decentralization as a prerequisite of good disaster governance. Using 44 interviews, this study contributes to the literature that focuses on disasters and decentralization by investigating three systemic mechanisms that seemingly challenge decentralization of disaster management in Turkey: introduction of oversight systems, resource-allocation failure, and central–local collaboration. The results indicate that these mechanisms are enabled by a combination of political-administrative system characteristics and disaster-induced processes. To better understand how to secure the benefits of decentralization, we should engage with a wide range of disaster management actor perspectives, and integrate research on political-administrative systems and collaborative governance.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Routledge, 2018
Keywords
Decentralization, decentralizing reforms, disaster management, political-administrative system, collaboration, Turkey
National Category
Public Administration Studies
Research subject
Statsvetenskap med inriktning mot krishantering och internationell samverkan
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-6703 (URN)10.1080/01900692.2018.1466898 (DOI)
Available from: 2017-03-29 Created: 2017-05-17 Last updated: 2020-01-23Bibliographically approved
Hermansson, H. & Bondesson, S. (2018). Looking further, looking deeper: rethinking disaster resilience. Rethink
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Looking further, looking deeper: rethinking disaster resilience
2018 (English)In: RethinkArticle, review/survey (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The magnitude of a disaster is not measured solely by the size of an earthquake or strength of a storm. It depends on how societies are structured and organised, as this affects their disaster resilience.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Stockholm Resilience Centre, 2018
Keywords
disaster, surprise, uncertainty, urban
National Category
Political Science
Research subject
Ledarskap under påfrestande förhållanden
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-8344 (URN)
Note

Published 2018-12-20

Available from: 2019-01-24 Created: 2019-01-24 Last updated: 2021-03-23Bibliographically approved
Hermansson, H. (2017). Centralized Disaster Management Collaboration in Turkey. (Doctoral dissertation). Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis
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2017 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Following unprecedented earthquakes in 1999, highly centralized Turkey initiated reforms that aimed to improve disaster management collaboration and to empower local authorities. In 2011, two earthquakes hit the country anew affecting the city of Van and town of Erciş in Turkey’s southeast.

In attempts to reduce disaster risk, global disaster risk reduction frameworks and disaster scholars and practitioners advocate collaborative and decentralized disaster management strategies. This thesis investigates how such strategies are received in a centralized and hierarchical national political-administrative system that largely is the anti-thesis of the prescribed solutions. More specifically, this research investigates the barriers and prerequisites for disaster management collaboration between both public and civil society actors in Turkey (during preparedness, response, and recovery) as well as how Turkey’s political-administrative system affects disaster management collaboration and its outcomes. The challenges to decentralization of disaster management are also investigated.

Based on forty-four interviews with actors ranging from national to village level and NGOs, the findings suggest that the political-administrative system can alter the relative importance, validity, and applicability of previously established enabling or constraining conditions for collaboration. This may in turn challenge previous theoretical assumptions regarding collaboration.

By adopting a mode of collaboration that fit the wider political-administrative system, collaborative disaster management progress was achieved in Turkey’s national level activities. Although there were exceptions, collaboration spanning sectors and/or administrative levels were generally less forthcoming, partly due to the disjoint character of the political-administrative system. Political divergence between local and central actors made central-local collaboration difficult but these barriers were partly trumped by other prerequisites enabling collaboration like interdependence and pre-existing relations. The findings suggest that the specific attributes of disasters may both help and hinder disaster management collaboration. Such collaboration generally improved disaster response. The findings also indicate that the decentralization attempts may have been premature as the conditions for ensuring a functional decentralization of disaster management are presently lacking. Decentralization attempts are commonly suggested to increase local capacity and local participation but the findings of this dissertation suggest that in Turkey, these commodities may currently have better chances of being increased by refraining from decentralization.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2017. p. 90
Series
Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Social Sciences ; 141
Keywords
collaboration, disaster management, collaborative disaster management, cross-sector collaboration, trust, power balance, legitimacy, integration, local knowledge, local actors, civil society, interdependence, pre-existing relations, political affiliation, natural disaster, disaster response, damage assessment, aid distribution, search and rescue, decentralization, central-local collaboration, political-administrative system, Turkey, Van, Erciş
National Category
Public Administration Studies
Research subject
Statsvetenskap med inriktning mot krishantering och internationell samverkan
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-6702 (URN)9789155498696 (ISBN)
Public defence
2017-06-08, Brusewitzsalen, Östra Ågatan 19, Uppsala, 13:00 (Swedish)
Opponent
Supervisors
Available from: 2017-05-17 Created: 2017-05-17 Last updated: 2020-02-10Bibliographically approved
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