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Open Government and Transparent Policy: China's Experience with SARS

International Public Management Review

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Title Open Government and Transparent Policy: China's Experience with SARS
 
Creator Lan, Ling
 
Description This article explores the close link between information exposure and good governance as well as high government institutional performance in light of a special case study of how the Guangdong provincial government and China’s central government responded to the outburst of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic in November 2002. It analyzes the possible reasons behind the initial misinformation on the crisis. Also, it analyzes the lessons the Chinese government learned from the event and the mutative character of government behavior toward information exposure after this short SARS episode. In this regard it focuses on several pioneering programs leading to more open government and transparent policy, such as in Guangdong and Shanghai, and emphases the significant importance of public participating for sound policymaking and democratic governance in the country.
 
Publisher International Public Management Review
 
Contributor —
 
Date 2014-03-21
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://journals.sfu.ca/ipmr/index.php/ipmr/article/view/159
 
Source International Public Management Review; Vol 6, No 1 (2005); 60-75
1662-1387
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://journals.sfu.ca/ipmr/index.php/ipmr/article/view/159/159
 
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