Why Does the “Information Paradox” Occur in Emergency Management?——A Study from the Perspective of Chinese State Governance

Information is an important basis for state governance.The contradiction between conventional governance mechanism and campaign-style governance mechanism is deeply reflected in the differences between daily management and emergency management in China.Centralized bureaucratical governance logic inevitably requires the daily management to adopt a non-personalized management model of the bureaucracy.Responsibility for the direct superior shapes the conventional information transfer mechanism in which information gradually decays in the vertical direction.However,under the emergency management mechanism,accurate decision-making by superiors in responding to emergencies depends on the grasp of real information,while the representational blame avoidance caused by conventional mechanisms will weaken the accuracy of decision-making by superiors.Thus, it has shaped the "Information Paradox" phenomenon of Chinese state governance in the emergency management mechanism.