Mikko Värttö
Biographic Data
| ID | 4406207 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mikko Värttö |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mikko |
| FAMILY NAME | Värttö |
| SIGNATURE | VÄRTTÖ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turku |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8772-7872 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Infodemiasta hallittuun kriisiviestintään
Katsauksessa tarkastellaan Suomen hallituksen viestintätoimia covid-19 pandemian aikana. Erityisesti huomio kiinnittyy hallituksen käyttöönottamaan pandemiastrategiaan, jossa korostuivat kohdennetut rajoitukset ja suositukset sekä niitä tukeva kansalaisviestintä. Viestinnän tehostamiseksi ja yhdenmukaistamiseksi hallitus muun muassa otti käyttöön valmiuslain mahdollistamia toimivaltuuksia viestinnän keskittämiseksi sekä käynnisti erilaisia viesti…
Involving Citizens in Crisis Management
This paper studies the role of public participation in the context of emergencies, such as pandemics. Two main challenges of democratic governance that can arise during acute crises are the uncertainty of information and the urgency of the situation. These challenges can lead to the technocratisation of emergency response and executive overreach that can undermine the democratic governance of a crisis. In response to this potential for the erosio…
Citizens in Distress
In emergencies, public participation can perform a positive function by raising public awareness of the potential harms and injustices that may have resulted from emergency measures and policies. In this way, public participation can contribute to democratic crisis management, and also legitimise democratic institutions more broadly. However, emergency conditions can challenge these participatory practices, undermining citizens’ ability to influe…
Deliberation under the circumstances of acute crises
An acute, unexpected crisis can seriously undermine the performance of various democratic functions, leading to democratic deficits in crisis management. This paper builds on deliberative democracy theory and crisis management. Utilizing an analytical framework that considers each stage of a crisis, we elaborate on the demands for democratic deliberation and scrutinize the roles that institutions of citizen deliberation can fill in societal emerg…
Articulating Pandemic Recovery
Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory is an international refereed open access journal, which publishes contributions on the transdisciplinary study of concepts. In classical rhetoric, ‘redescription’ refers to a rhetorical move that alters the use of a concept in one respect or another. The journal draws attention to conceptual moves within political theory, conceptual history and feminist thought, and highlig…
From Transformative Hope to Political Reality. A Conceptual Analysis of Post-Pandemic Government Agendas in Europe
It is easy to discern an inherently optimistic outlook in much of the COVID-19 literature. The pandemic perhaps represents an opportunity to redesign the existing parameters of society or even initiate new forms of the social contract. This article seeks to examine to what extent, and in which ways, post-pandemic official political agenda-setting realistically reflects these hopes. Through a comprehensive conceptual framework consisting of ethica…
Crisis, temporality and governmental policy agendas
Crises transform the temporal orientation of political decision‐making. They demand immediate and decisive action and thus convert time into a means of political control. In these circumstances, assessing the long‐term consequences of proposed policies with respect to welfare, sustainability or justice also becomes demanding. Yet crisis conditions may also contain of elements that can enable positive postcrisis societal changes. Crises can offer …
Parliamentary oversight of emergency measures and policies
The article discusses the role of parliamentary oversight of emergency measures and policies in increasing democratic resilience and recovery from the COVID‐19 pandemic. The study on the Finnish Parliament is conducted by analyzing the statements of the Constitutional Law Committee, whose role is to conduct a parliamentary constitutional review of governmental bills. The main focus of the analysis is on the Committee's reviews of the constitution…
Can politicians and citizens deliberate together? Evidence from a local deliberative mini‐public
In a deliberative mini‐public, a representative number of citizens receive information and discuss given policy topics in facilitated small groups. Typically, mini‐publics are most effective politically and can have the most impact on policy‐making when they are connected to democratic decision‐making processes. Theorists have put forward possible mechanisms that may enhance this linkage, one of which is involving politicians within mini‐publics …
Can politicians and citizens deliberate together? Evidence from a local deliberative mini‐public
In a deliberative mini‐public, a representative number of citizens receive information and discuss given policy topics in facilitated small groups. Typically, mini‐publics are most effective politically and can have the most impact on policy‐making when they are connected to democratic decision‐making processes. Theorists have put forward possible mechanisms that may enhance this linkage, one of which is involving politicians within mini‐publics …
Parliamentary oversight of emergency measures and policies
The article discusses the role of parliamentary oversight of emergency measures and policies in increasing democratic resilience and recovery from the COVID‐19 pandemic. The study on the Finnish Parliament is conducted by analyzing the statements of the Constitutional Law Committee, whose role is to conduct a parliamentary constitutional review of governmental bills. The main focus of the analysis is on the Committee's reviews of the constitution…
From Transformative Hope to Political Reality. A Conceptual Analysis of Post-Pandemic Government Agendas in Europe
It is easy to discern an inherently optimistic outlook in much of the COVID-19 literature. The pandemic perhaps represents an opportunity to redesign the existing parameters of society or even initiate new forms of the social contract. This article seeks to examine to what extent, and in which ways, post-pandemic official political agenda-setting realistically reflects these hopes. Through a comprehensive conceptual framework consisting of ethica…
Crisis, temporality and governmental policy agendas
Crises transform the temporal orientation of political decision‐making. They demand immediate and decisive action and thus convert time into a means of political control. In these circumstances, assessing the long‐term consequences of proposed policies with respect to welfare, sustainability or justice also becomes demanding. Yet crisis conditions may also contain of elements that can enable positive postcrisis societal changes. Crises can offer …
Can politicians and citizens deliberate together? Evidence from a local deliberative mini‐public
In a deliberative mini‐public, a representative number of citizens receive information and discuss given policy topics in facilitated small groups. Typically, mini‐publics are most effective politically and can have the most impact on policy‐making when they are connected to democratic decision‐making processes. Theorists have put forward possible mechanisms that may enhance this linkage, one of which is involving politicians within mini‐publics …
Parliamentary oversight of emergency measures and policies
The article discusses the role of parliamentary oversight of emergency measures and policies in increasing democratic resilience and recovery from the COVID‐19 pandemic. The study on the Finnish Parliament is conducted by analyzing the statements of the Constitutional Law Committee, whose role is to conduct a parliamentary constitutional review of governmental bills. The main focus of the analysis is on the Committee's reviews of the constitution…
Articulating Pandemic Recovery
Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory is an international refereed open access journal, which publishes contributions on the transdisciplinary study of concepts. In classical rhetoric, ‘redescription’ refers to a rhetorical move that alters the use of a concept in one respect or another. The journal draws attention to conceptual moves within political theory, conceptual history and feminist thought, and highlig…
From Transformative Hope to Political Reality. A Conceptual Analysis of Post-Pandemic Government Agendas in Europe
It is easy to discern an inherently optimistic outlook in much of the COVID-19 literature. The pandemic perhaps represents an opportunity to redesign the existing parameters of society or even initiate new forms of the social contract. This article seeks to examine to what extent, and in which ways, post-pandemic official political agenda-setting realistically reflects these hopes. Through a comprehensive conceptual framework consisting of ethica…
Crisis, temporality and governmental policy agendas
Crises transform the temporal orientation of political decision‐making. They demand immediate and decisive action and thus convert time into a means of political control. In these circumstances, assessing the long‐term consequences of proposed policies with respect to welfare, sustainability or justice also becomes demanding. Yet crisis conditions may also contain of elements that can enable positive postcrisis societal changes. Crises can offer …
Infodemiasta hallittuun kriisiviestintään
Katsauksessa tarkastellaan Suomen hallituksen viestintätoimia covid-19 pandemian aikana. Erityisesti huomio kiinnittyy hallituksen käyttöönottamaan pandemiastrategiaan, jossa korostuivat kohdennetut rajoitukset ja suositukset sekä niitä tukeva kansalaisviestintä. Viestinnän tehostamiseksi ja yhdenmukaistamiseksi hallitus muun muassa otti käyttöön valmiuslain mahdollistamia toimivaltuuksia viestinnän keskittämiseksi sekä käynnisti erilaisia viesti…
Involving Citizens in Crisis Management
This paper studies the role of public participation in the context of emergencies, such as pandemics. Two main challenges of democratic governance that can arise during acute crises are the uncertainty of information and the urgency of the situation. These challenges can lead to the technocratisation of emergency response and executive overreach that can undermine the democratic governance of a crisis. In response to this potential for the erosio…
Citizens in Distress
In emergencies, public participation can perform a positive function by raising public awareness of the potential harms and injustices that may have resulted from emergency measures and policies. In this way, public participation can contribute to democratic crisis management, and also legitimise democratic institutions more broadly. However, emergency conditions can challenge these participatory practices, undermining citizens’ ability to influe…
Deliberation under the circumstances of acute crises
An acute, unexpected crisis can seriously undermine the performance of various democratic functions, leading to democratic deficits in crisis management. This paper builds on deliberative democracy theory and crisis management. Utilizing an analytical framework that considers each stage of a crisis, we elaborate on the demands for democratic deliberation and scrutinize the roles that institutions of citizen deliberation can fill in societal emerg…
Political science (6 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 (3 works) · Democracy (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Pandemic (3 works) · Politics (3 works)