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http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21680| Appears in Collections: | Communications, Media and Culture Journal Articles |
| Peer Review Status: | Refereed |
| Title: | Policy responses to crisis: the case of the UK firefighters’ dispute |
| Author(s): | Dinan, William Ford, Allison McConnell, Allan Pyper, Robert |
| Contact Email: | wd11@stir.ac.uk |
| Keywords: | firefighters crisis New Labour government civil contingencies |
| Issue Date: | Apr-2006 |
| Date Deposited: | 22-Apr-2015 |
| Citation: | Dinan W, Ford A, McConnell A & Pyper R (2006) Policy responses to crisis: the case of the UK firefighters’ dispute. Policy and Politics, 34 (2), pp. 307-323. https://doi.org/10.1332/030557306776315804 |
| Abstract: | This article seeks to examine the UK government's policy responses to the 2002–04 firefighters' dispute, a prolonged crisis which necessitated the activation of the central government's contingency planning procedures for a public safety emergency. The framework for analysis draws on a set of key criteria against which governmental and organisational policy responses to crises can be categorised: agenda management, centralisation of policy responses, decentralisation of policy responses, bureaucratic politics and strategic evasion. The article shows that the sum total of all these patterns is a strong Westminster-centric response, rather than one that is more differentiated or 'hollowed out'. |
| DOI Link: | 10.1332/030557306776315804 |
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