China’s COVID-19 response

In January 2020 Beijing established the Central Epidemic Response Leading Group to mobilise a comprehensive nationwide policy effort to contain the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19. The exceptional nature of the COVID-19 national emergency allows the central government to project power over local authorities and leverage over citizens, but as the authors argue, policy discretion at subnational levels enabled localised and context-specific responses to the virus within China’s strict bureaucratic hierarchy.

Read the article at https://doi.org/10.1002/app5.342

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