Towards a politics of disaster response: presidential disaster instructions in China, 1998–2012

Tao, Peng; Chen, Chunliang

doi:10.1111/disa.12243

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“…On the one hand, political pressure weakens the effect of benign local crisis learning in situations where the frequency of major accidents is low, to the detriment of sustaining long-term local learning. This is mainly due to the fact that, as political pressure increases, crisis issues are rapidly politicized [86], and the intensity of the accumulated political pressure hinders local learning [87]. In scenarios of high political pressure, crisis learning is motivated by the deterrent effect of major accidents, forcing a shift from gradual, lesson-learning-based crisis learning to movement-based learning.…”

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Learning from Neighbors: The Spatial Spillover Effect of Crisis Learning on Local Government

Tang

Wang

2022

Sustainability

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Accident prevention is an important prerequisite for achieving sustainable development, and effective crisis learning is a necessary path to it. This article focuses on whether local governments in non-accident areas learn from crises in accident areas, that is “learn from the mistakes of neighbors” and “grow in wisdom.” Using panel data from 2006–2017 for 30 provinces in China, our empirical test discovered that there is not a one-to-one relationship between “learning from neighbors” and “growing in wisdom”; it is a U-shaped relationship between the frequency of major accidents and the crisis learning effect of local government. When the occurrence frequency of major accidents is low, the regulatory effect caused by major accidents leads to the effective crisis learning of local governments. However, when major accidents occur frequently and reach a certain threshold, the crisis learning effect will deteriorate due to an excessive deterrent effect. In this non-linear relationship, the impact of political pressure occurs on two fronts, a gentle U-shaped curve and a shift in the inflection point to the left, implying that political pressure plays a dual role in the crisis learning process of local government. Accordingly, local governments should fully seize the window of time to initiate crisis learning with regulatory effects and delegate political authority to supervise local crisis learning with reasonable compliance.

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Learning from Neighbors: The Spatial Spillover Effect of Crisis Learning on Local Government

Tang

Wang

2022

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“…after 2003 have also failed to solve the cumulative contradictions within the segmented system and alter the state's monopolistic status over power concentration (Tao and Chen 2018, 276). How to proceed with further reforms thus becomes a hot issue both for theorists and practitioners in China.…”

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China's Pathway to Domestic Emergency Management: Unpacking the Characteristics in System Evolution

Liu

Zhu

2021

Politics & Policy

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China's emergency management (EM) system has undergone a series of reforms and organizational changes since the SARS epidemic in 2003. However, institutional segmentation, unbalanced power for the Emergency Management Office, pervasive internal corruption, and state monopoly control are threats to the administration's goal of resilient and modern EM systems. The new round of 2018 reforms was intended to promote integration through the establishment of the Ministry of Emergency Management and related institutional restructuring involving power redistribution. The reforms are nevertheless likely to face some potential problems like the operation of a super‐ministry, interorganizational integration, state‐society relations, and supervision. Through field interviews, the article investigates and uncovers issues in China's EM system and the perception from government sectors at different levels. The article suggests that cooperative governance in coping with state‐society relations and decentralization of power could be of great significance for future EM reform in China. Related Articles Ash, John. 2010. “New Nuclear Energy, Risk, and Justice: Regulatory Strategies for an era of Limited Trust.” Politics & Policy 38 (2): 255‐284. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-1346.2010.00237.x Brogan, Michael James. 2017. “Evaluating Risk and Natural gas Pipeline Safety.” Politics & Policy 45 (4): 657‐680. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12211 Neill, Katharine A., and John C. Morris. 2012. “A Tangled web of Principals and Agents: Examining the Deepwater Horizon oil Spill through a Principal–Agent Lens.” Politics & Policy 40 (4): 629‐656. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1747-1346.2012.00371.x/full

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“…Although instructions are not mandatory, they would be conveyed level by level relying on formal organizations. They are sometimes even more efficacious than formal rules [48]. The latter generally refers to spontaneous actions by residents.…”

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Geo-Disaster Governance under the IAD Framework: The Case Study of Chongqing’s Three Gorges Reservoir Region, China

Ran

Fan

Zhou³

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Disaster governance draws attention from academics and policymakers, especially in developing countries. This paper shows how daily geo-disaster governance at local level operates in China and then reveals the causes of its pattern. To achieve the goals, we apply the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) Framework as the lens into the case of Chongqing’s Three Gorges Reservoir Region. We find that China’s daily geo-disaster governance, as a whole, is a top–down system where public sectors play an active role. It emphasizes technology, engineering, and profession, and features the matrix of fragmentation. The governance varies as the situations change and leaves disconnection among situations. The exogenous environment, several rules in action situations, and evaluative criteria shape the governance pattern altogether. Finally, we suggest that the government should change from disaster orientation to people orientation, from discontinuity to continuity, and from singularity to diversity.

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Towards a politics of disaster response: presidential disaster instructions in China, 1998–2012

Cited by 8 publications

References 30 publications

Learning from Neighbors: The Spatial Spillover Effect of Crisis Learning on Local Government

Learning from Neighbors: The Spatial Spillover Effect of Crisis Learning on Local Government

China's Pathway to Domestic Emergency Management: Unpacking the Characteristics in System Evolution

Geo-Disaster Governance under the IAD Framework: The Case Study of Chongqing’s Three Gorges Reservoir Region, China

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