Thanks for your interest - I hope you'll read the article. Policy capture and a lack of structural reform are important problems - my paper suggests these aspects of crisis leadership are challenging for individual MPs. So good they're locally responsive, but not the whole story!

This paper had a long genesis (here I am getting caught in the rain during fieldwork in 2020) and thanks are due to many people not least of all the MPs who volunteered their time to explain their work to me and all the others I pestered for feedback over the years!

However, I also find a resilient democracy should be responsible, as well as responsive, and overwork, distrust in politicians and their own representative priorities present challenges for MPs as crisis leaders!

I find using 28 interviews & a survey of ~100 state and federal MPs that they prioritise work which helps build up their service & symbolic connections – coordinating with local civil servants, understanding the impacts & danger signs in their communities & supporting people who are suffering.

In crises we expect our national leaders to be there for us - emotionally and practically coordinating emergency responses/support for those affected. We also hope that our politicians look forward to prevent future disaster. But what about 'on the ground' in individual MPs' constituencies?

I been enjoying a lot of Adrian Tchaikovsky stuff lately. City of Last Chances and Cage of Souls were fun.

In this episode I reference a paper by @cosmohoward.bsky.social and I where we analyzed narratives and strategies in Oz Parliament around the phrase 'Housing Crisis' 2020-2023 check it out:

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...