How Is Policy Attention Allocated in Crisis Recovery? A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of 31 Provincial Governments in China.

Investigating how government departments allocate attention provides insights into the different levels of emphasis placed on different types of policies. Identifying factors that shape local governments' strategic policy choices helps describe policy diffusion, transmission, and learning processes....

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Publicado en:Review of Policy Research Vol. 43; no. 2; pp. 1 - 15
Autores principales: Zhao, Yu, Guo, Xuesong, Wu, Mingyu, Yuan, Zimeng
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Mar2026
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          Zhao, Yu
          Guo, Xuesong
          Wu, Mingyu
          Yuan, Zimeng
        affil: School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
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        China
        Economic recovery
        Provincial governments
        Provinces
        Policy sciences
        COVID-19
        Comparative studies
        Crisis management
        Pandemics
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          Economic recovery
          Provincial governments
          Provinces
          Policy sciences
          China
          Other Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities
          Other provincial and territorial public administration
          COVID-19
          Comparative studies
          Crisis management
          Pandemics
      keyword:
        attention allocation
        conditional constraint
        crisis event
        qualitative comparative analysis
        recovery policy
        análisis comparativo cualitativo
        asignación de atención
        evento de crisis
        política de recuperación
        restricción condicional
        危机事件
        定性比较分析
        恢复政策
        条件约束
        注意力分配
        attention allocation
        conditional constraint
        crisis event
        qualitative comparative analysis
        recovery policy
        análisis comparativo cualitativo
        asignación de atención
        evento de crisis
        política de recuperación
        restricción condicional
        危机事件
        定性比较分析
        恢复政策
        条件约束
        注意力分配
      ab: Investigating how government departments allocate attention provides insights into the different levels of emphasis placed on different types of policies. Identifying factors that shape local governments' strategic policy choices helps describe policy diffusion, transmission, and learning processes. At the same time, the growing complexity of crises makes the conventional approach to policy agenda‐setting, based on external pressures, insufficient. As such, this study focuses on the differences in policy choices related to the public health event of a pandemic, a unique form of crisis, and develops a framework for analyzing the allocation of attention to post‐pandemic recovery policies under conditional constraints based on the attention‐based view. The study conducts a qualitative comparative analysis using a sample of 31 provincial governments' post‐COVID‐19 recovery policies in China to investigate how different factors influence local recovery policy preferences. The analysis reveals four distinct configurations leading to an economic recovery preference, all of which share low fiscal dependence as a core condition. In contrast, a single, different path—combining high fiscal dependence and high regional economic growth rate with low GDP per capita—explains the emergence of a social recovery preference. The findings suggest that effective crisis recovery requires policymakers to align their policy focus with their specific local constraints rather than adopting a uniform strategy.
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    language: English
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