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Campaign-style crisis regime: how China responded to the shock of COVID-19

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  • Changkun Cai
  • Weiqi Jiang
  • Na Tang

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How did China construct effective crisis governance systems to cope with a transboundary crisis like COVID-19? By integrating policy regime and campaign theories, this article constructs an analytical framework – the campaign-style crisis governance regime – to answer this question. The COVID-19 crisis was reconceived as a people’s war in order to prompt idea-sharing within the regime. The decision-making and coordination capacity of crisis management was enhanced by the establishment of top-down leading groups/headquarters and complex horizontal/vertical and formal/informal institutional arrangements. By aligning the interests of stakeholders through a variety of mechanisms, the supply of materials and human resources and the level of cooperation were significantly improved. China’s campaign-style crisis regime is embedded in the nation’s political-administrative structures. This article also discusses the theoretical and empirical implications of Chinese-style response in the end.

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  • Changkun Cai & Weiqi Jiang & Na Tang, 2022. "Campaign-style crisis regime: how China responded to the shock of COVID-19," Policy Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 43(3), pages 599-619, May.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:cposxx:v:43:y:2022:i:3:p:599-619
    DOI: 10.1080/01442872.2021.1883576
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    1. Christopher L. Atkinson, 2024. "Theme-Based Book Review: Public Administration in China," Public Organization Review, Springer, vol. 24(1), pages 433-441, March.

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