RESEARCH SHOWCASE 15 Yi, Fangxin, et al. “Time Matters in Pandemic Risk Communication: A Moderated Effect of Information Timeliness on Stakeholder Perception in Singapore.” Risk Analysis (2023). This study assesses the impact of timely warning messages on stakeholders’ perceptions of public health emergencies by analyzing the survey data (N = 538) from Singapore to explore the main effect of information timeliness on the respondents’ stakeholder perceptions. This effect is moderated by normative factors, including attention and threat perceptions. It is found that the more timely the government updates the risk information, the more trustworthy the stakeholders appear in respondents’ opinions. Such an effect is weakened when the pre‐decision attention or the threat perception interacts with the predictor independently. However, this effect on stakeholder perceptions becomes stronger if both moderators interact with the information timeliness. That is, an appropriate combination of the information released by the government can effectively enhance the image of the stakeholders during the pandemic. Cruz, Christian Joy Pattawi, Kira Matus, and Stuart Gietel-Basten. “The Extent of Use of Surveys in Policymaking: The Case of Hong Kong.” Evidence & Policy (2023): 1-22. This paper measures the extent of survey research being used as evidence in policymaking in Hong Kong, it screened and examined Hong Kong LegCo documents utilized to enact 569 bills from 2000 to 2022 through document analysis. It is found that about 25% of bills utilized surveys as evidence, with differences across 18 policy areas and health services recorded the highest percentage of survey use in legislation. In the Hong Kong legislature, surveys are primarily used to understand policy issues better. The mode of data collection, sample size, response rates, and representativeness of surveys are not commonly discussed in legislative documents. The study findings reaffirm previous research on the limited utilization of survey evidence in policymaking in Hong Kong, an Asian context with unicameral legislation and colonial history. The importance of survey evidence was highlighted in policy areas that directly impact the public, such as healthcare. The findings also highlight the important role of politics in investigating the use of surveys as research evidence for policymaking. Wang, Xinyi, Laurence L. Delina, and Kira Matus. “Living with Energy Poverty: Uncovering Older People’s Fuel Choices in Urban China.” Energy Research & Social Science 104 (2023): 103247. This paper explores the linkage between energy poverty and fuel choices. Aiming to answer the reason behind older people’s continued usage of honeycomb coal briquettes in affluent urban areas in China by analyzing older people’s subjective experiences and objective connections to their fuel use, their lived experiences with energy poverty are uncovered. The ‘Energy Cultures Framework’ is extended by including older people’s vulnerability attributes alongside their material culture, norms, practices, and external influences. Using semi-structured interviews and participant observations in urban Wuhan, passive and active dirty fuel stacking were found among older people facing energy poverty. Passive dirty stacking is mainly caused by older energy-poor individuals’ material culture, external influences, and vulnerability attributes, whereas active dirty stacking is primarily associated with their norms, practices, vulnerability attributes, and related external factors. These findings provide strong implications for social and energy policy, particularly regarding the characterization of energy poverty, regulatory and infrastructural responses, social justice, grassroots governance, energy literacy, and cultural compatibility.
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