Overview
- 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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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.
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Book Title: Disaster Management in China in a Changing Era
Authors: Yi Kang
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Political Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44516-7
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-44515-0Published: 14 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-44516-7Published: 03 October 2014
Series ISSN: 2191-5466
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5474
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 126
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Political Science