@article{THESIS,
      recid = {13328},
      author = {Wang, Zifeng},
      title = {Early or Late: A Comparative Sociological Study of Zero  COVID Policy},
      publisher = {University of Chicago},
      school = {M.A.},
      address = {2024-12},
      number = {THESIS},
      abstract = {Among the countries that have effectively implemented Zero  COVID(ZC), why are they all been able to adopt similar  policies to achieve the status of Zero COVID while the  patterns of ending zero Covid are so different? The pattern  of ending ZC falls into two general types. Type A  (Australia and Zealand) were for countries that were able  to gradually deregulate their social restrictions to  terminate Zero COVID and move to enhanced medical logistics  to face future death peaks from pandemics. Type B (China  and Vietnam) were those countries that insisted on strong  social restrictions and failed to strengthen medical  logistics, resulting in the need to declare an end to the  Zero COVID policy when the peak of deaths occurred. As a  result, the pattern of ending in type A countries was a  more orderly transition to the post-epidemic era, with less  cost in lives paid for the epidemic. By incorporating both  temporal and structural narratives, this essay suggests  that regime legitimacy contributed to the different  patterns of Zero COVID policy. In particular, the source of  regime legitimacy affects whether policy-making is more  value-oriented or instrument-oriented. Countries with  instrument-oriented policies have strong professionalism  that is more able to plan for long-term transition policies  to reduce total costs. State capacity is a necessary  condition for assessing a policy's implementation, but when  state policy is dominated by value and ideologization, it  can instead create greater negative consequences.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/13328},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.13328},
}