Convergence and diversity: how collective risk perception shapes public compliance behaviour - a case study of China's Covid-19 response.

ABSTRACT: This study investigates the influence of collective risk perception on public compliance behaviour, aiming to elucidate why cities exhibit significant disparities in pandemic response effectiveness and compliance levels despite implementing similar containment policies. Drawing on the perspectives of power and knowledge, we first construct an explanatory framework for collective risk perception, and employ the most similar systems design (MSSD) to examine the contrasting Covid-19 responses in Wuhan and Shanghai, China. The findings indicate that during the early stages of the Wuhan outbreak, collective risk perception exhibited a high degree of convergence, shaped by unknow knowledge, stringent government interventions, pessimistic expert evaluations, negative societal opinions and the ala

SUBMITTER: Hong W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12038960 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature