Public Attitudes Towards Government’s Good Administration and Society Under COVID-19 Case Study

Abstract

This research article is intended to achieve 2 objectives, namely (1) to study the government’s measures and administration by way of document review; and (2) to study the public attitudes towards the government’s good administration and society under the COVID-19 situations by way of survey research via online survey to collect data from a total of 499 people.
This study reveals that during the COVID-19 situations, the government has issued several public health, economic and social measures to assist people and alleviate the impact of the situations. However, such measures by the government are found to be quite problematic as the government is unable to extensively provide people with welfare and assistance, which may be said that the government’s measures turn out to become “privileges” to a certain group of people, as opposed to “rights” for people.
The results of study on public attitudes towards the government’s good administration and society show the subjects’ view that the government fails to manage the national resources to the maximum benefits, due to the inefficient budget allocation and the administration without transparency, listening to people’s opinions and demands in a timely fashion. Not to mention that the government’s administration fails to focus on resolving people’s problems and hardship. These attitudes are obtained in form of perceptions on the government’s operations in terms of public health, economic and social measures, by different groups of people generally characterized by gender, career, income, donation, and volunteering activities, etc