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Compensating for the ‘Authoritarian Advantage’ in Crisis Response: A Comparative Case Study of SARS Pandemic Responses in China and Taiwan
Why do some countries more effectively respond to crises than others? This paper compares China’s relatively effective response to the 2002–3 SARS outbreak with Taiwan’s relatively ineffective response, focusing on three variables that constitute China’s ‘authoritarian advantage’ - centralized decis...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7111788/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32288475 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11366-012-9204-4 |
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description | Why do some countries more effectively respond to crises than others? This paper compares China’s relatively effective response to the 2002–3 SARS outbreak with Taiwan’s relatively ineffective response, focusing on three variables that constitute China’s ‘authoritarian advantage’ - centralized decision making powers; public support; and, relations with the mass media. The paper rejects a fourth explanatory variable specific to the Taiwan case – membership in international organizations. Drawing heavily on the Taiwan example, the paper concludes by suggesting options for overcoming the authoritarian advantage in pandemic response. |
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spelling | pubmed-71117882020-04-02 Compensating for the ‘Authoritarian Advantage’ in Crisis Response: A Comparative Case Study of SARS Pandemic Responses in China and Taiwan Schwartz, Jonathan J Chin Polit Sci Research Article Why do some countries more effectively respond to crises than others? This paper compares China’s relatively effective response to the 2002–3 SARS outbreak with Taiwan’s relatively ineffective response, focusing on three variables that constitute China’s ‘authoritarian advantage’ - centralized decision making powers; public support; and, relations with the mass media. The paper rejects a fourth explanatory variable specific to the Taiwan case – membership in international organizations. Drawing heavily on the Taiwan example, the paper concludes by suggesting options for overcoming the authoritarian advantage in pandemic response. Springer Netherlands 2012-07-19 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC7111788/ /pubmed/32288475 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11366-012-9204-4 Text en © Journal of Chinese Political Science/Association of Chinese Political Studies 2012 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Schwartz, Jonathan Compensating for the ‘Authoritarian Advantage’ in Crisis Response: A Comparative Case Study of SARS Pandemic Responses in China and Taiwan |
title | Compensating for the ‘Authoritarian Advantage’ in Crisis Response: A Comparative Case Study of SARS Pandemic Responses in China and Taiwan |
title_full | Compensating for the ‘Authoritarian Advantage’ in Crisis Response: A Comparative Case Study of SARS Pandemic Responses in China and Taiwan |
title_fullStr | Compensating for the ‘Authoritarian Advantage’ in Crisis Response: A Comparative Case Study of SARS Pandemic Responses in China and Taiwan |
title_full_unstemmed | Compensating for the ‘Authoritarian Advantage’ in Crisis Response: A Comparative Case Study of SARS Pandemic Responses in China and Taiwan |
title_short | Compensating for the ‘Authoritarian Advantage’ in Crisis Response: A Comparative Case Study of SARS Pandemic Responses in China and Taiwan |
title_sort | compensating for the ‘authoritarian advantage’ in crisis response: a comparative case study of sars pandemic responses in china and taiwan |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7111788/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32288475 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11366-012-9204-4 |
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