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 …

Both theoretical and empirical studies have shown that democracy and corruption have substantial influence on … environmental policy. In this paper, we empirically analyse whether both democracy and corruption are equally important determinants …. When these variables are jointly included as explanatory variables, we find that corruption stands out as an important …