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Disaster Management in China in a Changing Era

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  • © 2015

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Authors:
  1. Yi Kang

    1. Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR

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  • Draws attention back to the importance of moral underpinnings of regime
  • Uses the politics of disaster relief to shed light on how authoritarian regimes adapt
  • Attends to the micro-transitions that manifest in large-scale changes in authoritarian regimes
  • Explores bureaucratic pressures and responses in an authoritarian regime, which provides insights into these issues in democracies as well
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Political Science (BRIEFSPOLITICAL)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction: Nondemocracies in a Changing Era

    • Yi Kang
    Pages 1-20

  3. Evolvement of Disaster Management Practices in China: A Trend Toward Greater Openness

    • Yi Kang
    Pages 21-48

  4. Agency Problems in Disaster Response: The “Adaptation Quandary” for Nondemocratic Government

    • Yi Kang
    Pages 49-69

  5. Postdisaster Changes in Local Governance and Chances for Nonstate Sector Development

    • Yi Kang
    Pages 71-89

  6. A Note on Generalizability, Variation, and Implications

    • Yi Kang
    Pages 91-106

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 107-126
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About this book

This book shows how Chinese officials have responded to popular and international pressure, while at the same time seeking to preserve their own careers, in the context of disaster management. Using the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake as a case study, it illustrates how authoritarian regimes are creating new governance mechanisms in response to the changing global environment and what challenges they are confronted with in the process. The book examines both the immediate and long-term effects of a major disaster on China’s policy, institutions, and governing practices, and seeks to explain which factors lead to hasty and poorly conceived reconstruction efforts, which in turn reproduce the very same conditions of vulnerability or expose communities to new risks. In short, it tells a “political” story of how intra-governmental interactions, state-society relations, and international engagement can shape the processes and outcomes of recovery and reconstruction.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR

    Yi Kang

About the author

The author did her BA in Philosophy at Fudan University, MPhil in Government & International Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University, and PhD in Political Science at Yale University. She joined the staff of Hong Kong Baptist University in 2011. Her research area is Comparative Politics, Chinese Politics, and Disaster Management.

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