The Impact of Significant Events on Public Policy and Institutional Change: Towards a Research Agenda
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Inga Patkauskaitė-Tiuchtienė
VU Tarptautinių santykių ir politikos mokslų institutas
Rasa Bortkevičiūtė
Vilnius University Institute of International Relations and Political Science
Vitalis Nakrošis
Vilnius University Institute of International Relations and Political Science
Ramūnas Vilpišauskas
Vilnius University Institute of International Relations and Political Science
Published 2022-05-09
https://doi.org/10.15388/Polit.2022.105.1
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Keywords

crisis
focusing event
significant event
mapping
policy change
Lithuania

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Patkauskaitė-Tiuchtienė, Inga, Rasa Bortkevičiūtė, Vitalis Nakrošis, and Ramūnas Vilpišauskas. 2022. “The Impact of Significant Events on Public Policy and Institutional Change: Towards a Research Agenda”. Politologija 105 (1): 8-52. https://doi.org/10.15388/Polit.2022.105.1.

Abstract

Data shows that significant events such natural disasters, anthropogenic disasters and malign activities by hostile actors, often having cross-border effects, have been on the rise. However, the studies of the effects of those events on public policies, governance and institutions remain inconclusive. In this article we present a research agenda which proposes the classification of the significant events on the basis of their characteristics backing it with a newly compiled data set on significant events which took place in Lithuania in 2004-2020 and outline the directions for an in-depth analysis of the causal mechanisms of how those events affect policy and institutional change. We conclude with concrete proposals for further research which could provide theoretically innovative and policy relevant insights into the political processes which translate responses to significant events into policy and institutional changes affecting welfare institutions and resilience of society.

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