228 KB0 KB2021Malešič, Marjanletnik:14številka:2str. 66-80ISSN:1338-1385COBISSID_HOST:65940995URN:URN:NBN:SI:doc-9GOEHRNUenAlma Mater Europea-European Centre Maribor (AMEU-ECM)Center for Analysis of Administrative-Political Processes and InstitutionsDepartment of Political ScienceJournal of comparative politicsCovid-19Crisis communicationCrisis managementEpidemicsEpidemijeKrizno komuniciranjeKrizno upravljanjeGlobal and national paradoxes in responses to the COVID-19 crisis|The crisis brought by COVID-19 and the response to it have led to plenty of paradoxes and associated behaviour. Relying on paradox theory, the author overviews paradoxes detected on the global level before focusing on Slovenia: one of the most effective countries in fighting the COVID-19 virus during the first wave of epidemic but one of the least successful during the second one. The government has ignored the management structure already in place and designed to respond to a complex crisis, and instead decided to improvise. Despite the harsh anti-COVID-19 measures imposed during the second wave, no positive results have been visible for months. While the authorities have expected citizens to abide by the measures, certain representatives of the authorities have sometimes ignored them. Rather than dealing strictly with issues to do with the virus, the government has raised particular sensitive ideological issues and created conflict, losing precious time and energy. Despite the existence of crisis communication plans, several principles for addressing the public were missing. Civil society's protests against the measures hold the potential to attract even harsher ones. The fight against the virus has absorbed tremendous medical capacities, thereby neglecting other diseases that may be expected, on top of the COVID-19 problems, to have a long-term negative impact on public healthKriza, ki jo je povzročil virus COVID-19 in odziv nanjo sta pripeljala do številnih paradoksov in z njimi povezanega vedenja. Avtor ob opori na teorijo paradoksa najprej naniza nekaj primerov, ki so bili prepoznani na globalni ravni, v nadaljevanju pa se osredotoči na Slovenijo. Ta je bila ena najuspešnejših držav pri spoprijemanju z virusom COVID-19 v prvem valu epidemije in ena najmanj uspešnih v drugem valu. Vlada je ignorirala strukturo upravljanja, ki je bila nedavno vzpostavljena za odziv na kompleksne krize in je raje improvizirala. Kljub strogim protivirusnim ukrepom uvedenim v drugem valu, pozitivnih učinkov ni bilo še več mesecev po njihovi uvedbi. Medtem ko so oblasti od državljank in državljanov pričakovale spoštovanje ukrepov, so jih določeni predstavniki oblasti občasno kršili. Namesto, da bi se vlada ukvarjala izključno z virusom, je odpirala nekatera občutljiva ideološka vprašanja in sprožala konflikte, pri čemer je izgubljala dragocen čas in energijo. Navkljub obstoju načrtov, smo v vladnem naslavljanju javnosti pogrešali upoštevanje temeljnih načel kriznega komuniciranja. Protesti civilne družbe proti strogim vladnim ukrepom so omogočali širitev okužbe in posledično uvajanje še strožjih ukrepov. Boj proti virusu je zahteval izjemne zdravstvene zmogljivosti, kar je hkrati pomenilo zanemarjanje drugih bolezni, ki bodo imele dolgoročen negativen vpliv na javno zdravjeTEXTznanstveno časopisjejournalsSlovenian National E-content AggregatorNational and University Library of SloveniaUniverza v Ljubljani, Fakulteta za družbene vede