"Citizens’ Expectations for Crisis Management and the Involvement of Civil Society Organizations in China" by Reza Hasmath

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Citizens’ Expectations for Crisis Management and the Involvement of Civil Society Organizations in China

Journal of Current Chinese Affairs (2022)

Reza Hasmath, University of Alberta
Timothy Hildebrandt, London School of Economics and Political Science
Jessica Teets, Middlebury College
Jennifer YJ Hsu, University of New South Wales
Carolyn L Hsu, Colgate University

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Abstract

Chinese citizens are relatively happy with the state’s management of national disasters and emergencies. However, they are increasingly concluding that the state alone cannot manage them. Leveraging the 2018 and 2020 Civic Participation in China Surveys, we find that more educated citizens conclude that the government have a leading role crisis management, but there is ample room for civil society organizations (CSOs) to act in a complementary fashion. On a slightly diverging path, volunteers who have meaningfully interacted with CSOs are more skeptical than non-volunteers about CSOs’ organizational ability to fulfill this crisis management function. These findings imply that the political legitimacy of the Communist Party of China is not challenged by allowing CSOs a greater role in crisis management.

Keywords

national disaster and emergency,
state performance and legitimacy,
civil society organizations,
COVID-19

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Publication Date

2022

Citation Information

Hasmath, R., Hildebrandt, T., Teets, J., Hsu, J. and Hsu, C. (2022) "Citizens’ Expectations for Crisis Management and the Involvement of Civil Society Organizations in China", Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 51(2): 292-312.