IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/sprchp/978-981-19-6325-4_2.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Law and Political Economy of China’s Early Pandemic Response: Limited Economic Support and Insulation

In: The First 100 Days of Covid-19

Author

Listed:
  • Aleksandar Stojanović

    (New York University in Shanghai)

  • Wanshu Cong

    (Hong Kong University School of Law)

  • An Zhai

    (University College London)

  • Yao Libo

    (Tsinghua University)

  • He Simeng

    (Tsinghua Law School)

  • Guo Dongcheng

    (China University of Political Science and Law)

  • Xinyi Xu

    (China University of Political Science and Law)

  • Huang Junyue

    (Georgetown University Law School)

Abstract

In this chapter we identify several significant aspects of the ongoing policy transformation in China. Firstly, combating the pandemic allowed for policy justification through a specific type of “state of war” narrative instead of referring to legal rules, which were unclear. It also led to a shift in the utilization of surveillance practices from a national, hierarchical and visible level, to a social, fluid, and less visible one. Moreover, unlike in the West, the least significant change has been observed in the domain of economic policy. Instead of a less discriminate liquidity supply approach taken in the West, China’s policy makers opted for a set of highly targeted fiscal, monetary and procurement measures in order to ensure the stability of the financial markets, relieve pressures on the real economy and secure employment. The measures were rolled out over a brief period of time (although not as large as in the EU or US) and were retracted significantly faster.

Suggested Citation

  • Aleksandar Stojanović & Wanshu Cong & An Zhai & Yao Libo & He Simeng & Guo Dongcheng & Xinyi Xu & Huang Junyue, 2023. "Law and Political Economy of China’s Early Pandemic Response: Limited Economic Support and Insulation," Springer Books, in: Aleksandar Stojanović & Luisa Scarcella & Christina R. Mosalagae (ed.), The First 100 Days of Covid-19, pages 15-54, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-19-6325-4_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-6325-4_2
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-19-6325-4_2. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.