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- Albrecht, Frederike
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The Social and Political Impact of Natural Disasters : Investigating Attitudes and Media Coverage in the Wake of Disasters
- 2017
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Natural disasters are social and political phenomena. Social structures create vulnerability to natural hazards and governments are often seen as responsible for the effects of disasters. Do social trust, political trust, and government satisfaction therefore generally change following natural disasters? How can media coverage explain change in political attitudes? Prior research suggests that these variables are prone to change, but previous studies often focus on single cases, whereas this dissertation adopts a broader approach, examining multiple disasters. It investigates the social and political impact of natural disasters by examining their effect on social and political attitudes and by exploring media coverage as a mechanism underlying political consequences.The results reveal that natural disasters may have a comparatively frequent, although small and temporary, effect on social trust. Substantial effects are less likely. Social trust was found to decrease significantly when disasters cause nine or more fatalities (Paper I). Political attitudes were expected to be prone to change after natural disasters, but Paper II illustrates that political trust and government satisfaction among citizens are generally hardly affected by these events. Finally, media framing and the political claims of actors explained the variation in political consequences after disasters of similar severity. Paper III also illustrates the importance of the political context of natural disasters, as their occurrence can be strategically exploited by actors to further criticism towards the government in politically tense situations.This dissertation contributes to existing disaster research by investigating more cases than disaster studies typically do. It also uses a systematic case selection process, and a quantitative approach with a, for disaster research, unique research design. Hence, it offers methodological nuance to existing studies. A broader analysis, factoring in the variation of disaster severity and the increased number of cases offers new answers and tests assumptions about underlying patterns. The main contribution of this thesis is that it examines how common political and social effects of disasters are. Furthermore, this dissertation contributes to existing disasters research by emphasizing contextual and explanatory factors, e.g., properties of disasters and the political context that affects the media coverage of natural disasters.
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- Blomkvist, Hans, 1953-, et al.
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Civil Society and Social Capital in South Asia
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Ingår i: International Encyclopedia of Civil Society. - New York : Springer-Verlag New York. - 9780387939964 ; , s. 291-296
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- Bosi, Lorenzo, et al.
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Collective Action Outcomes : Ways Forward for the Subfield
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Ingår i: PArticipation and COnflict. - : COORDINAMENTO SIBA. - 1972-7623 .- 2035-6609. ; 14:3, s. 987-997
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Given the growing interest in how collective action matters, this special issue seeks to push our understanding of collective action outcomes beyond the present state of knowledge and stimulate further developments. In doing this, it looks to improve and expand the theoretical and conceptual tools for studying the topic, suggest and explore methodological innovations to solve previous research problems and investigate new settings across various movements and countries.
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- Bosi, Lorenzo, et al.
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Political and institutional confrontation
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Ingår i: Protest Cultures. - New York : Berghahn Books. - 9781785331497 - 9781785331480 ; , s. 451-463
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- Cristancho, Camilo, et al.
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Discarding protests? : Relating crisis experience to approval of protests among activists and bystanders
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Ingår i: Acta Politica. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0001-6810 .- 1741-1416. ; 54:3, s. 430-457
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- To what extent does the economic crisis affect support for political protest? Since the outburst of the financial crisis in 2008 many protests have been mobilized against national governments and their austerity policies. In some countries, these actions were described in the media as having little support among the general public, while elsewhere these actions enjoyed significant public support. Surprisingly little scholarly work has examined this variation. We fill this research gap by investigating who approves of austerity protests, how bystanders’ attitudes differ from the activists’ approval of protests and how repertoires relate to the approval of austerity protests. The analysis uses original survey data from nine European countries affected by the recent economic crisis at varying degrees and demonstrates that protest experience, both at the country and individual level, relates to approval of anti-austerity protests. The severity of economic crisis increases is positively related to protest approval in general terms, but there are differences depending on the type of grievances and which forms of austerity protests are considered.
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