id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-325032-3x5wklr4 Jiang, Shanhe Semiformal Organizations and Control During the COVID-19 Crisis in China 2020-10-30 .txt text/plain 6929 351 47 Using a survey data collected during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in China, this study investigated the prevalence and importance of semiformal organizations, formal organizations, and informal groups participating in social control and social service and the predictors of the perceived importance of these three forms of social control mechanisms. The table is based on the data from the respondents' answers to this question: "During the COVID-19 lockdown period, who participated in the following activities: checkpoint inspection, health screening, food supplies, drug supplies, sanitization, and information distribution." The choices included residents' or village committee, government agencies or officers, community police or police officers, volunteers, regular citizens, and no action. In sum, formal organizations, government agencies and police, the semiformal organizations, residents' committee in urban areas and village committee in rural areas, and informal groups or individuals, volunteers, and regular citizens, all participated in community control and service. ./cache/cord-325032-3x5wklr4.txt ./txt/cord-325032-3x5wklr4.txt