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Hybrid Coordination for Coping with the Medical Surge from the COVID ‐19 Pandemic: Paired Assistance Programs in China
Author(s) -
Hu Qian,
Zhang Haibo,
Kapucu Naim,
Chen Wu
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
public administration review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.721
H-Index - 139
eISSN - 1540-6210
pISSN - 0033-3352
DOI - 10.1111/puar.13253
Subject(s) - pandemic , covid-19 , china , corporate governance , business , coping (psychology) , emergency management , public relations , political science , psychology , medicine , economic growth , economics , virology , finance , infectious disease (medical specialty) , outbreak , disease , pathology , psychiatry , law
The COVID‐19 pandemic poses unprecedented challenges to public health care systems and demands intergovernmental coordination to cope with the resulting medical surge. This essay analyzes the operation of Paired Assistance Programs (PAPs) in China, offering a timely comparative case for researchers and practitioners to examine when reflecting on the classic debate over the hierarchical versus network approaches to coordination in emergency management. PAPs highlight the importance of network management and necessity of institutionalizing mechanisms of governance to facilitate coordination within multilevel response systems.