This paper studies how media and democracy influence government action taken before and after a natural disaster. The … and the quality of democracy that pertains to how relevant election results are. We show that more media activity and more … of media and democracy on the government's preventive effort before the disaster are negative. We provide empirical …

This paper studies how media and democracy influence government action taken before and after a natural disaster. The … and the quality of democracy that pertains to how relevant election results are. We show that more media activity and more … of media and democracy on the government's preventive effort before the disaster are negative. We provide empirical …

before the disaster, however, media and democracy both have a negative e ffect, as does corruption. We provide empirical … action, the quality of democracy that pertains to how relevant election results are, and corruption that reduces the efficacy … disaster, although corruption has a negative e ffect that decreases as media activity increases. On the preventive e ffort …

Media coverage of humanitarian crises is widely believed to influence charitable giving, yet this assertion has … received little empirical scrutiny. Using Internet donations after the 2004 tsunami as a case study, we show that media …

Two major earthquakes which struck northwestern Turkey in 1999 exposed rampant corruption involving construction and … zoning code violations. The government's relief efforts were tainted by corruption as well, and exhibited a great deal of … parties were responsible for the construction of the shoddy buildings, and for the corruption and mismanagement related to …

such a disaster, online media has emerged as a valuable resource. In this study, we analyze the online-media usage … analysis of evacuees' attributes demonstrate that acquiring evacuation information from online media is an information …-exploratory information gathering behavior. Therefore, as regards the direction of online media utilization in future of natural disasters, it …