Media,institutions, and government action: Prevention vs. palliation in the time of cholera |
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Institution: | 1. Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, Germany;2. Research Department, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC, USA;1. School of Management and Business, King''s College London, UK;2. Department of Economics, University of Athens, Greece |
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Abstract: | This paper studies how media and the quality of institutions affect government action taken before and after a natural disaster. Provided that more media activity is focused on post-disaster action, we show that more media activity and better democratic institutions both contribute positively to the palliative effort after the disaster, although corruption has a negative effect that decreases as media activity increases. On the preventive effort, however, media and democracy both have a negative effect, as does corruption. We provide empirical evidence based on major cholera epidemics and other natural disasters around the world, which largely support these hypotheses. |
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