Challenges, the Strategic State, and Agility in European Public Governance
<p class="Pa22"><span>This paper is concerned with leadership capacity at national level to mobilise society to take up challenges. It uses empirical analysis to explain how, in a European context, this capacity covaries with the development of strategic state capabilities. Th...
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Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
2022-12-01
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| description | <p class="Pa22"><span>This paper is concerned with leadership capacity at national level to mobilise society to take up challenges. It uses empirical analysis to explain how, in a European context, this capacity covaries with the development of strategic state capabilities. The evidence is used to explore the conditions in which strategic state capabilities have a positive effect on the capacity of leadership to mobilise society. These conditions include factors related to the public: social capital, average subjective wellbeing (happiness), and political attitudes relating to government and democracy (having a voice that was listened to, public trust in the government, and the public’s satisfaction with the working of democracy).</span></p><p class="Pa22"><span>It is suggested that strategically led governments with high levels of coordination in the civil service, with practices and abilities consistent with learning and agility, and with good engagement with, and good support from, the public and the organisations of civil society, tend to have national leadership elites that have a strong capacity for mobilization of society to take up challenges.</span></p><span>In the conclusions it is stated that the democratic cultures of Europe may require more ‘open government’ and more inclusiveness so that their embryonic strategic states can better leverage information and resources of society, so that governments can offer more powerful societal leadership</span> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c25785f8c9f041b691e72eb87357228e2024-03-14T07:28:38ZengBabes-Bolyai University, Cluj-NapocaTransylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences1842-28452022-12-0118SI11813610.24193/tras.SI2022.11759Challenges, the Strategic State, and Agility in European Public GovernancePaul Joyce0Associate at INLOGOV, University of Birmingham; Visiting Professor in Public Management at Leeds Beckett University; and Director of Publications, International Institute of Administrative Sciences (IIAS)<p class="Pa22"><span>This paper is concerned with leadership capacity at national level to mobilise society to take up challenges. It uses empirical analysis to explain how, in a European context, this capacity covaries with the development of strategic state capabilities. The evidence is used to explore the conditions in which strategic state capabilities have a positive effect on the capacity of leadership to mobilise society. These conditions include factors related to the public: social capital, average subjective wellbeing (happiness), and political attitudes relating to government and democracy (having a voice that was listened to, public trust in the government, and the public’s satisfaction with the working of democracy).</span></p><p class="Pa22"><span>It is suggested that strategically led governments with high levels of coordination in the civil service, with practices and abilities consistent with learning and agility, and with good engagement with, and good support from, the public and the organisations of civil society, tend to have national leadership elites that have a strong capacity for mobilization of society to take up challenges.</span></p><span>In the conclusions it is stated that the democratic cultures of Europe may require more ‘open government’ and more inclusiveness so that their embryonic strategic states can better leverage information and resources of society, so that governments can offer more powerful societal leadership</span>https://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/726strategic stateleadershipagility in public administrationeuropean public governancesocial capital. |
| spellingShingle | Paul Joyce Challenges, the Strategic State, and Agility in European Public Governance Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences strategic state leadership agility in public administration european public governance social capital. |
| title | Challenges, the Strategic State, and Agility in European Public Governance |
| title_full | Challenges, the Strategic State, and Agility in European Public Governance |
| title_fullStr | Challenges, the Strategic State, and Agility in European Public Governance |
| title_full_unstemmed | Challenges, the Strategic State, and Agility in European Public Governance |
| title_short | Challenges, the Strategic State, and Agility in European Public Governance |
| title_sort | challenges the strategic state and agility in european public governance |
| topic | strategic state leadership agility in public administration european public governance social capital. |
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