ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT: Our society comes to the “high-risk” stage and unexpected events become an inevitable part of our social life. How to improve the ability of emergency management is a new challenge that the government has to face. Scholars agree on the importance of trust in the government in emergency management. This paper tries to examine the role of procedural justice in emergency management. The general perspective holds that efficiency should be stressed and the fairness is a second or third thing because the situation in emergence is different from usual situation. Actually, however, people still care about the fairness during the emergence management. This paper focuses on how procedural factors influence people’s subjective feelings and cognition, and examines the relationship between procedural justice and government trust. The research shows that procedural justice not only influences government trust, but also plays an important role in the cultivation of the latter. Based on the results, the final section of the paper proposes some advices to improve government trust in emergency management from the perspective procedural justice.
