The Cognitive Basis of the Party Leadership:A Micro-perspective on Grassroots Response to Major Public Emergencies——A Comparative Analysis of COVID-19 Policy Implementation in Q and S Communities,Anhui Province
To elucidate the general process and differentiated trajectory of policy implementation during major public emergencies at the grassroots level,this paper,addressing the limitations of current academic research fixated on structural explanations of party leadership,tries to combine the top-down administrative system centered on party guidance with political elites'cognitive initiative to examine the existing model of party leadership.By comparing the policy implementation processes of two communities in County F of Anhui Province in response to the COVID-19 crisis,we found that the centralized and unified decision-making system provides a fundamental institutional guarantee for swift mobilization and organization against the crisis.However,there are dynamic differences in the political elites'cognition on the pandemic crisis,which leads to significant differences in the performance of the two communities in the implementation of pandemic prevention policies.The interaction between the homogeneous political party leading system and the heterogeneous risk perception model jointly shape the evolutionof pandemic prevention policiesimplementation.The paper reflects on how to broaden knowledge production and practice of the party leadership in dealing with major public emergencies.
Major Public EmergenciesParty LeadershipCognitive AgencyComparative Case Study
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