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The Politics of Crisis Management: Public Leadership Under Pressure

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In times of crisis, communities and members of organizations expect their leaders to minimize the impact of the crisis at the level of the organization as mentioned in this paper, which is a defining feature of contemporary governance.
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Crisis management has become a defining feature of contemporary governance. In times of crisis, communities and members of organizations expect their leaders to minimize the impact of the crisis at ...

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Constructing the Political Spectacle

TL;DR: In this paper, Murray Edelman argues against the conventional interpretation of politics, one that takes for granted that we live in a world of facts and that people react rationally to the facts they know, and explores the ways in which the conspicuous aspects of the political scene are interpretations that systematically buttress established inequalities and interpretations already dominant political ideologies.
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Organizational response to adversity: Fusing crisis management and resilience research streams

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