Public crisis governance is an important part of the modernization of national governance. Public participation in public crisis governance is a concrete manifestation of civil rights. Its value lies in safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of individuals while realizing social public interests. When public crisis management occurs, the government should pay attention to public participation and promote the improvement of social governance system. Public participation in public crisis governance is embodied in the constraints of laws and regulations and social responsibilities, as well as the action logic of citizens ' conscious responsibility for public crisis governance. However, the current public participation in public crisis management in China still has weak awareness of citizen participation and low participation ability. Information asymmetry in public crisis governance; the government 's guidance on public participation is not enough. Based on this, the article strengthens public participation in public crisis management education and enhances citizens ' awareness of participation ; improve the information disclosure system ; strengthen the government 's guidance to the public in three aspects to further improve the public crisis management system, in order to improve the government 's ability to manage public crises.

Zhao Dejing. Research on the dilemma and improvement of public participation in public crisis management. International Journal of Frontiers in Sociology (2023), Vol. 5, Issue 15: 140-145. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJFS.2023.051524.

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