Edited by Christopher Ansell, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, USA, Eva Sørensen, Professor, Jacob Torfing, Professor, Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, Denmark and Jarle Trondal, Professor, ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Department of Political Science and Management & CeDiT, University of Agder, Norway and Senior Fellow, Institute of European Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA

• Contents1 The challenge of societal turbulence and the need for robustpublic governance 1Christopher Ansell, Eva Sørensen, Jacob Torfing and Jarle Trondal2 Turbulence as a challenge to public governance 13Jarle Trondal and Christian Lo3 Robust public governance: political and administrativeStrategies 27Eva Sørensen and Jacob Torfing4 Robust governance of crisis-induced turbulence: an analyticalframework 57Christopher Ansell and Jacob Torfing5 Robustness strategies—municipality responses to theCOVID-19 pandemic 76Ingunn Skjesol, Silje Valberg and Gøril Ursin6 Handling crisis-induced turbulence: how a Norwegianmunicipality collaborated with other actors to respondrobustly to an extreme weather incident 100Gulnara Nadamova and Aase Kristine Lundberg7 Robust strategic responses to turbulence in municipal refugeeservices: advancing the capacity for flexibility 123Ann-Torill Tørrisplass and Berit Irene Vannebo8 The role of digital platforms for robust governance 147Leif Skiftenes Flak, Berit Irene Vannebo and Silje Valberg9 Robust governance of societal turbulence—today andtomorrow 163Christopher Ansell, Janne Iren Paulsen Breimo, ChristianLo, Eva Sørensen, Jarle Trondal and Jacob Torfing

'This groundbreaking book emphasizes that existing theories of public administration and governance are essentially ‘good weather’ theories that do not apply in the era of heightened societal turbulence and poly-crises. To improve the capacity of the public sector to deal with crisis-induced turbulence, the notion of robust governance – offering an alternative to resilience and agility – is conceptualized and thoroughly explained through practical examples.'