The role of legitimacy in robust crisis governance. Examining the failed European response to the turbulence of the 2015-16 refugee crisis

Rasmus Øjvind Nielsen, Andrea Pettrachin, Vicente Pina, Lourdes Torres, Juraj Nemec, David Špaček, Institute of Social Science and Business, Roskilde University, Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies, University of Padua, Department of Accounting and Finance, University of Zaragoza, Department of Public Economics, Masaryk University, The Czech Republic

Public Policy and Administration

Published online on February 25, 2026

Abstract

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This article examines the European governance failures that occurred during the 2015-16 refugee crisis through the lens of robust crisis governance. The article asks whether these failures can be explained by a failure to meet the double criterion for ...