Research On Government Behavior In Public Crisis Decision-making

Nowadays China is in transition period with rapid economy development and profund social change, togetherly increasing is more frequent natural disaster evocating by stronger environment pressure and more potential public crisis evocating by reallocation of benefits, therefore crises are to present themself in a more frequent, complex and harmful forms. It's common big challenge for our govornment at all levels to manage the public crises timely and effectively, and government's crisis management strategy probably pay a more important role in loss control than crisis itself.The thesis is to construe under premise of limited rationality, based on the theory of expected utility function model, from the point of view of organizational behavior and cognitive psychology, to analyse governmental actions in public crises management, to build autility model of government behavior in public crises management, and test the model's validity through government actions in southern China snowstorm and Wenchuan earthquake. Through the model to analyse governmental decision-make, to fully explain that decision-makers's personal factor, organizational psychology, information's quantity and quality are key factors to influence government decision-making behavior. Therefore, the model can help improve government capacity to manage public crises.The thesis is mainly made of four parts: theory base, general analysis, model construction, practise provement. The first part is theory base of government behavior, including limited rational decision-making theory and anticipated theory; the next part summarized the public crisis decision-making system, analyzed the influential factors and typical ifficulties in governmental behavior; chapter four constructed utility model of government behavior of decision-making in public crises; the last part test the effectiveness of the utility model through vivid cases of southern China snowstorm and Wenchuan earthquake.