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Li, Haoxuan (2022) Public Leadership in the Chinese Government's Response to COVID-19: The synergy of governance, public participation and cultural foundations. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)]

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The country's sudden and abnormal public crisis is a test of the government's leadership (Wu, 2013). These crises include wars, natural disasters, pandemics, etc. As of January 18, 2022, COVID-19, which lasted about two years and two months, has caused 330 million infections and 5.5 million deaths globally (WHO, 2022). When a crisis occurs, governments of various countries are faced with formulating a thorough response plan within a short time and then passing the review of relevant departments, communicating with the public and responding to questions or accusations from the media. This dissertation adopts the qualitative case study method to explore China's performance and response to COVID-19 from the perspective of national culture and public leadership. This research takes the performance of the government and people in Wuhan from the time of lockdown to the lifting of restrictions as a case. It profoundly analyzes China's national culture, the institutional model and measures adopted by the Wuhan government and the Chinese central government in response to COVID-19. The author analyzes the factor of national culture mainly from the two aspects of power distance and collectivism. In order to explain the mechanism of action of the two elements of national culture and government leadership, this study added the public factor. In this way, it explains how the government can influence the public in both rigid and soft patterns. These three factors together constitute a model framework for the effective functioning of government leadership. On this basis, this research explains why the Chinese government can effectively control the spread of the epidemic in a short time.

Key words: Covid-19, public leadership, government, national culture, power distance, individualism – collectivism, institution, autocratic system public

Item Type:	Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Keywords:	Covid-19, public leadership, government, national culture, power distance, individualism – collectivism, institution, autocratic system public
Depositing User:	Li, Haoxuan
Date Deposited:	25 Apr 2023 14:33
Last Modified:	25 Apr 2023 14:33
URI:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/67745

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