What happens when traditional governance models no longer apply? When crisis becomes chronic, as in the case of the Covid-19 pandemic, we can no longer rely solely on bureaucracy or horizontal networks, and a new approach is needed. This is the heart of the concept of “robust governance” the focus of a study recently published in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory and authored by Maria Cucciniello, Alex Turrini, Greta Nasi, Giovanni Valotti, Marta Micacchi, and Daniela Cristofoli of Bocconi University, among others.

Robustness, the authors explain, is the ability of public organizations to keep generating value even in conditions of severe instability, combining two key elements: flexible adaptation and proactive innovation.

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