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Bureaucratic Inertia

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Synonyms

Administrative failure; Bureaucratic organization; Disaster governance

Definition

Disaster management inertia refers to the inability of government agencies and institutions to prevent and mitigate the impacts of disasters because of bureaucratic challenges. Bureaucratic discretion is granted among public managers to install effective mechanisms in resolving challenges in policy implementation. Ineffective disaster management measures suggest the inevitability of inertia in the bureaucracy.

Introduction

Disaster management is a governance problem where disaster leadership is a precarious but most coveted responsibility. Commonly, disaster governance is viewed to be effective if it has a centralized decision-making and decentralized operations (Kapucu 2005). Given that such a structure is accurate, crucial among public managers are their respective partnerships across government and nongovernment agencies to facilitate the decentralization of disaster response operations,...

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  1. Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of Technology, Iligan, Philippines

    Hazel Jovita

  2. Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

    Achmad Nurmandi

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  1. Hazel Jovita
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Correspondence to Hazel Jovita .

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  1. Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA

    Ali Farazmand

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Jovita, H., Nurmandi, A. (2018). Bureaucratic Inertia. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_692-1

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