The Domestic Social Crisis And The Crisis Public Relations Of The United States

It is a time of government crises in which the United States is confronted withlots of domestic social crises so that the public relations in crisis become anincreasingly important factor in the function of the United States government. How todeal with the relationship between the emergency plan and the actual measures? Howto put the theory into the actual public relations in crisis and make full use of it?These are still major tasks of the U.S. government and even all the governments of theworld.The9/11incident and the event of Hurricane Katrina are two typical cases ofcrisis public relations of the United States in recent years. Combining core conceptand theory of public relations with practice, the author makes specific analyses of theprocedure of crisis management of the U.S. government in those two events in detailin which the advantages and problems were discussed and summarized. This studycontributes to the understanding of the mechanism, methods and principles of theUnited States government in crisis public relations as well as to understand and inferits future behaviors in this field.There is certain enlightenment and lessons to Chinese government withresearching on the U.S. government crisis public relations. Nowadays the crises areextremely perplexing. We should follow the pace of the times to consolidate theexisting theory and keep making innovation of the concept of public relations in crisis.Only in this way, crisis public relations could become the most effective means whenfacing on the crisis, so as to improve the government’s public satisfaction and trustwhich could guarantee the construction of harmonious society with power.