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Title:: On Failure of Emergency Response: An Ideal Type of Analytical Framework

Keywords:: failure of response; ideal type; proportionality/disproportionality

Abstract:: Failure of emergency response is a common phenomenon in emergency management practice and a major problem plaguing emergency management research, yet the concept is missing in emergency management research. The lack of concept is not only detrimental to the construction of theory, but also to the solution of practical problems. Based on the existing legal regulations in China and drawing on the research of policy theory, this paper considers disproportionality as the essential characteristic of failure of emergency response, and constructs a preliminary analytical framework for emergency response failure in the sense of ideal types by distinguishing different dimensions of disproportionality. This framework provides both an integrated and systematic approach for identifying realistic emergency response failure problems and an operational and foundational concept for further measurement and evaluation.