Research on the Mechanisms behind Blame Avoidance Strategies Employed by Governments in Emergency Management——An analysis based on the Theory of Incomplete Contracts
As a tendency to draw on advantages and avoid disadvantages,the blame avoidance strategy is prevalent among government decision-makers,which hinders the enhancement of the government's emergency management effectiveness.By conducting single case analysis in virtue of the Theory of Incomplete Contracts,this article proposes an"Analysis Framework for the Generation Mechanism of Emergency Management'Control Right—Claim Rights'Responsibility Avoidance Strategies".Taking the"particularly major resi-dents'self-built house collapse accident in City C,Province H"as a case in point,it analyzes the generation mechanism of the gov-ernment's responsibility avoidance strategy in emergency management.It has been found through this study(1)that the existence of defects in the public power distribution mechanism and risk uncertainty drives the government to adopt emergency management responsi-bility avoidance strategies,(2)that the failure of the supervision mechanism promotes the excessive expansion of residual claim rights by lower-level governments,and(3)that residual control by higher-level governments excessive power will frustrate the enthusiasm of lower-level governments for emergency management.Based on these findings,this article puts forward corresponding policy suggestions as follows:(1)Improve the power distribution mechanism;(2)Perfect the power supervision mechanism;(3)Optimize the perform-ance evaluation system.
responsibility-avoidance strategiesgeneration mechanismincomplete contracting theory
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