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It proposes ‘turbulence’ as a conceptual device and distinguishes environmental turbulence, organized turbulence, and turbulence of scale. It then develops an organizational-institutional approach showing how organizations and institutions both generate and adapt to turbulence. 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Second, the paper outlines an organizational-institutional approach that highlights the role of organizational and institutions in both producing and adapting to turbulence. Third, it elaborates a set of propositions that suggest how organizations and institutions are likely to respond to precipitous, conflicting, and novel—in short, turbulent—governance challenges.\nIntroduction\nThe decision of UK citizens to ‘Brexit’ in 2016 illustrates that Europe is in a stage of accelerating turbulence in search of political order (Olsen 2007). The unruly politics leading to the British referendum are now being followed by the chaotic politics of extricating U.K. political institutions and markets from the European Union (EU). More far-reaching still, ‘Brexit’ threatens serious cascading effects, such as intensified Scottish demands for independence from the UK. Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, the 2016 US Presidential campaign revealed an analogous kind of turbulence (Kristof 2016). The surprising nomination of Donald Trump as presidential candidate and his subsequent electoral victory has thrown American politics into turmoil, portending cascading political dynamics that will play out in unknown ways over the next decade. Both incidents illustrate competing and shifting ideas about the ‘forms of political association’ and increased turbulent governance (Olsen 2016: 5; Bulmer and Joseph 2016). Yet this paper argues that turbulence is hardly limited to such earth-shaking events. As argued, turbulence might be a normal and enduring, yet unrecognized, feature of contemporary public governance, not merely a transitional anomaly. Turbulent governance, we argue, requires public organizations to face governance challenges of certain kinds--situations where events, demands, and support interact in a highly variable, inconsistent, unexpected and unpredictable manner (Ansell et al. 2017; Easton 1965; Gunnell 2011; Miller 1971). The paper has three ambitions: First, it suggests ‘turbulence’ as a conceptual device for understanding governance in times of uncertainty and unpredictability and then identifies three types of turbulence: environmental turbulence, organized turbulence and turbulence of scale. Second, the paper outlines an organizational-institutional approach that highlights the role of organizational and institutions in both producing and adapting to turbulence. Third, it elaborates a set of propositions about how organizations and institutions are likely to respond to precipitous, conflicting, and novel—in short, turbulent—governance challenges.\nThe concept of turbulence originally developed in physics to describe chaotic fluid dynamics—such as stormy weather or complex river currents. A parallel  was outlined by James N. Rosenau (1990 and 1997)  in his attempts to conceptualize the dynamic complexity of governance in a turbulent world). Rosenau (1990: 10) depicted turbulence in world affairs as centered on parametric change along three dimensions. First, transformation of the overall structure of global politics (notably becoming multi-centric), changes in authority structures (a fundamental relocation of political authority), and revolution in the skills of citizens (becoming increasingly competent in politics). The ensuing consequence was uncertainty (Rosenau 1990: 8). Following Rosenau, this paper argues that turbulence directs analytical attention towards challenges as to how governing organizations handle unstable, unsettled and fluid public domains ","cbCait3tQ4VHVGtT","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCait3tQ4VHVGtT","docx",71845,"English","# Introduction\n## Conceptualizing turbulence in governance\n## Turbulence as condition versus dysfunction\n## Definitions of governance and governance organizations","[{\"question\":\"What is the core concept proposed for understanding governance in uncertain conditions?\",\"answer\":\"The paper proposes ‘turbulence’ as a conceptual device to analyze governance under uncertainty and unpredictability, treating turbulent governance challenges as a normal and enduring feature of public governance.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the paper classify turbulence?\",\"answer\":\"It identifies three types of turbulence: environmental turbulence, organized turbulence, and turbulence of scale, linking each to distinct sources of instability in governing contexts.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the organizational-institutional approach meant to explain?\",\"answer\":\"The approach highlights how organizations and institutions both produce turbulence and adapt to it, addressing how governing arrangements handle unstable and fluid public domains.\"}]","Governing Turbulence - An Outline for an Organizational-Institutional Approach | DOCX",1788888628]