• The challenges experts face during creeping crises: the curse of complacency 

      Zaman, Ahmad Wesal; Rubin, Olivier; Staupe, Reidar (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-01-05)
      The policy literature has generally conceptualised crises as urgent public threats with clearly demarcated ‘focusing events’. Consequently, most studies have identified the main challenges faced by expert agencies involved in evidence-based policymaking as managing uncertainty, time pressure and communication. However, less focus has been devoted to analysing the concrete challenges faced by expert ...
    • What makes an acute emergency? Temporal manifestation patterns and global health emergencies 

      Staupe, Reidar; Rubin, Olivier (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-06-09)
      In this article, we consider the role that onset patterns play in shaping how acute global events are taken to be, drawing on illustrative cases from the field of global health emergencies. We identify four temporal manifestation patterns that we argue display distinct political dynamics. First, an emergent onset pattern (e.g. the H1N1 health emergency), with political dynamics dominated by ...