Menzies Centre for Health Governance, School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), Australian National University (ANU) College of Asia & The Pacific, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
Department of Political Science, University of Munich, München, Germany.
Front Public Health. 2021 Sep 17;9:654945. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.654945. eCollection 2021.
The countries worldwide have adapted diverse governance approaches to the pandemic to suit their contexts. While the diversity of the country-specific governance responses has been widely discussed, the hybrids nature of those governance practices has been explored less. This study analyses the responses toward COVID-19 in South Korea as responsive dialogues of different modes of governance, i.e., consensus-based hierarchy, state-sponsored market, and principle-based network. This study aims to remind us that pandemic governance needs to enable organic and responsive processes for all actors in society. This conceptual discussion of the governance modes illustrates that the pandemic allowed the emergence of the hybrids of governance modes to cope better with the complex realities of the diverse sectors and actors in South Korea. The characteristic of the responses diverges from the conventional governance classification of or market-based. It is a responsive and evolving dialogue of different modes of governance. It would be productive to think beyond the oversimplified understandings of governance modes and embrace flexible and different hybrids of governance modes to be more responsive, effective, efficient, and equitable.
全球各国根据各自国情采取了多样化的大流行治理措施。虽然各国治理措施的多样性已得到广泛讨论，但这些治理实践的混合性质却探讨较少。本研究分析了韩国对 COVID-19 的应对措施，认为这是不同治理模式（基于共识的等级制、国家支持的市场和基于原则的网络）的互动对话。本研究旨在提醒我们，大流行治理需要为社会中的所有行为体提供有机和灵活的应对过程。本研究对治理模式的概念性讨论表明，大流行使得治理模式的混合体得以出现，从而能够更好地应对韩国不同部门和行为体的复杂现实。这些应对措施的特点有别于传统的基于市场的治理分类。这是不同治理模式的互动对话，具有响应性和动态性。超越对治理模式的简单化理解，采取灵活多样的治理模式混合体，更具响应性、有效性、效率和公平性，这将是富有成效的。
