This paper examines the Dutch policy reaction to the financial crisis in the public transport sector caused by Covid-19. Using the multi-level governance theory complemented with the notion of informal governance, the analysis explains the decision-making that defined a State-aid scheme to public transport operators following a process of consultation and concertation between state and non-state actors across governance tiers. To agree on a financial rescue package, these actors engage in front-stage and back-stage political interactions, constrained and enabled by formal and informal governance structures and practices. By analyzing how the interplay between the political mobilization of actors, policy-making arrangements, and existing polity structures shapes political alignment around the financial support scheme, the paper concludes that the crisis did not change customary governance and policy-making practices. Stakeholders sought their usual partners and followed existing routines in path-dependent ways to address the policy challenge brought by Covid-19. Despite being triggered by a major exogenous shock, the policy response to the crisis was driven mainly by endogenous forces; the decision-making mechanism remained the same and the network of actors did not shrink or expand.

本文探讨了荷兰对 Covid-19 引发的公共交通部门金融危机的政策反应。该分析利用多层次治理理论并辅以非正式治理概念，解释了在跨治理层的国家和非国家行为者之间进行协商和协调的过程中，为公共交通运营商定义国家援助计划的决策过程。 。为了就金融救助方案达成一致，这些参与者参与前台和后台的政治互动，并受到正式和非正式治理结构和实践的约束和支持。通过分析参与者的政治动员、政策制定安排和现有政体结构之间的相互作用如何形成围绕财政支持计划的政治联盟，本文得出的结论是，危机并没有改变习惯治理和政策制定实践。利益相关者寻找惯常的合作伙伴，并以路径依赖的方式遵循现有惯例，以应对 Covid-19 带来的政策挑战。尽管危机是由重大的外生冲击引发的，但应对危机的政策主要是由内生力量驱动的。决策机制保持不变，行为体网络没有缩小或扩大。