2025/10/15 by Nicolai De Wulf, Joris Voets · 1 voice
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Economic Issues in Ukraine #Banking, Crisis Management, COVID-19 Impact #Labor Market and Education
paper · doi:10.1080/03003930.2025.2575195
openalex publication_date 2025/10/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/16 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
This study investigates politico-administrative relations across four key crisis management tasks: sense-making, decision-making and coordination, meaning-making and account-giving, and learning during the Ukrainian refugee crisis. Drawing on a multiple-case study of three medium-to-large-sized Flemish cities that hosted the highest numbers of refugees and established ‘emergency villages’, it addresses the question: ‘How complementary are the interactions between politics and administration in cities during the management of the Ukrainian refugee crisis?’ The study analyses how politicians and civil servants interact and collaborate in crisis settings. The findings offer a revised interpretation of Svara’s complementarity model, adapted to the dynamics of crisis management. They provide new insights into politico-administrative interactions and role divisions, with implications for understanding centralisation tendencies and the influence of the crisis’s origin. These contributions advance the theoretical and practical understanding of complementarity in crisis governance.