title: Policy Capacity for Crisis Management: Cases from Asia
abstract: This thesis examines the relationships of policy capacity elements in crisis management through case studies of Hong Kong and other countries' crisis episodes. It highlights the importance of political capacity in understanding policy actions in crisis contexts and proposes a novel "crisis-to-crisis" framework that connects crises for a more comprehensive analysis. The policy capacity framework, widely used by public policy scholars, is extended to crisis management contexts. Eight case studies 