Social crisis governance

Author: Cai Zhiqiang
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: Crisis Governance Values
At least include two fundamental questions:
One is the understanding of crises, mainly covering whether one can recognize crises, what kinds of crises, and how to understand the influence of different crises.
The other is the values of crisis governance, i.e., what the purpose of governance is and what constitutes effective governance.
The formation of a social crisis governance perspective is a process, during which there may be fluctuations. Moreover, immature theories are often associated with immature practices. If people are still exploring certain crisis governance practices, it is unrealistic to expect them to immediately form clear and correct theories.
Today, many significant social issues lie before us, urgently awaiting resolution, such as the "Three Rural Issues," corruption, state-owned enterprise reforms, and some financial problems—these are explicit challenges. Additionally, there are numerous implicit challenges, including the crisis of social trust, the crisis of faith, and the crisis of political identity. People always strive to address these major issues through various institutional designs or measures, aiming to resolve the crises embedded within them. However, the effectiveness of these institutions and measures is a process that must be tested repeatedly in practice.
This also involves many complex issues, such as the relationship between government functions and social functions, the cost-benefit relationship in crisis governance, the relationship between short-term effects and long-term effects, the balance between the governance of rigid factors and soft factors, and the ecological factors and ecological environmental constraints during the crisis governance process. These require continuous exploration and research in the process of governance practice.