A comparative study on the national counterpart aid model for post-disaster recovery and reconstruction

Abstract

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Disaster-Recovery Social Capital and Community Participation in Earthquake-Stricken Ya’an Areas

“…This makes researchers pay more attention to the role of formal institutions in the post-disaster recovery process. For instance, how does government mobilize resources, how does its administrative system govern disasters [31], and what is the model of national counterpart aid [32]? These are state-centered disaster studies.…”

Exploring the administrative mechanism of China's Paired Assistance to Disaster Affected Areas programme

“…The PADAA is consistent with the current centralised one-party political environment in China, and it is more capable of providing assistance than other channels such as non-governmental organisations or international humanitarian agencies (Xu and Lu, 2013), which remain underdeveloped in contemporary China. As the case of reconstruction after the Wenchuan earthquake demonstrates, the activation and implementation of the PADAA is a common administrative process, namely 'multi-level moderated competition'.…”

Examining Administrative Inputs for China’s Public Emergency Response from the Perspective of System Costs

“…As the Theory of New Public Management (NPM), the management objective for the public sectors is to "spend a small amount of money to prevent rather than a lot of money to treat" [6]. From China's local practice, the view of mild prevention in public emergency response prevails in more administrators, which is less beneficial to emergency management.…”

“…These efforts and actions made the relationship gradually evolved from the original cooperation system to a wide network for coordination [5]. According to the provision of the State Council, it calls on its counterparts in support of such seriously devastating disasters as earthquake, particularly strengthen assistance in disaster restoration, reconstruction, manufacturing recovery and to provide economic cooperation as well as technical guidance [6]. Through intergovernmental Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, volume 290 cooperation, it gives full play to strengths from every social parts and avoid power diverge conductive to reduce the cost of government in the implementation capacity of emergencies.…”