| The COVID-19 epidemic broke out at the beginning of 2020,and the rapid spread of the epidemic had a huge impact on the normal operation of society and economy.Since the outbreak of COVID-19,the Chinese government has initiated emergency response from top to bottom and formulated a series of emergency response policies for epidemic prevention and control.As a public policy in the crisis period,epidemic response policy is a series of policy measures to deal with the crisis under the conditions of uncertainty,time pressure and threat.Obviously,the space left for public policy formulation and public communication in the crisis period is smaller than that in the normal period,which will lead to the policy communication being squeezed,and at the same time,the knowledge production gap under the condition of uncertainty.The public’s cognition of public policy formulation in the crisis period is also different from that of public policy in the normal period.The research on the application of culture theory of risk in public policy often focuses on the policy preferences and policy changes under normal conditions,but less on the combination with the public policy under crisis conditions.From the perspective of culture theory of risk,this paper focuses on the cultural cognitive basis for the effective implementation of COVID-19 policies in China.Therefore,this paper divides the research questions into three parts: Does the basis of cultural worldview exist in the increasingly diversified social structure and stratification of Chinese society? Are there differences in the preferences of groups with different cultural worldviews regarding epidemic response policies? Finally,what behavioral predictions and policy implications do these culture differences provide for China’s response to the epidemic?The solution to the three problems is the core content of this paper.This paper obtains data through online questionnaire survey and analyzes the data with empirical analysis method.The findings are as follows: there are various cultural bases in Chinese society.And public cultural worldview has a significant differences on policy preferences in response to the epidemic.Hierarchism and egalitarianism both have significant positive preferences for overall epidemic response policies,epidemic response policies of different degrees and epidemic response policies of different categories,and egalitarianism has relatively weak preference for epidemic response policies compared with Hierarchism.Individualism also has a significant positive preference for the epidemic response policy under the policy context of China.The regression results of fatalism were not significant under the context of the overall epidemic response policy,but significantly negative correlation was found for the normal and health system epidemic response policies,and significantly positive correlation was found for the abnormal and containment and closure epidemic response policies.Through the understanding of the regularity of public preference for epidemic response policies,we should formulate diversified epidemic response policies for the public with different cultural worldview,ensure the openness and transparency of epidemic information release,and build a public policy communication mechanism in crisis period,so that the public with different cultural worldview can reach a relatively consistent consensus on epidemic response policies and reduce the communication cost in epidemic response policies,so as to enhance the effectiveness of crisis response policy. |
