Crisis Rhetoric and Policy Change in China

Yihong Liu is assistant professor in School of Public Administration and Policy, Renmin University of China. He was born in Chongqing in 1984 and got a Public Administration Ph.D. degree from Utrecht University’s School of Governance in 2019 Feb. During his Ph.D. studies, he made a short visit to London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies in 2014. Now, he is Vice-Editor of Public Administration and Policy Review Journal (in Chinese) and Member of Board Committee of Risk, Disaster, and Crisis (in Chinese). He is hosting a special issue of Public Administration Reform in New Era in Public Performance Management Review. His research focuses on crisis management and policy process.

1.understanding crisis-induced policy changes in china.- 2.toward understanding crisis exploitation in china.- 3.three cases and qualitative thematic analysis.- 4.sars pandemic crisis as a “window of opportunity”.- 5.wenchuan earthquake disaster without exploitation.- 6.h1n1 pandemic crisis without “window of opportunity”.- 7.explaining variance of crisis rhetoric and exploitation.- 8.crisis exploitation and framing in non-western regime.