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Natural disasters occur in a political space. Although events beyond our control may trigger a disaster, the level of … political economy model of disaster prevention, supported by case studies and preliminary empirics to explain why some …
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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 incompetence. How voters responded to these in the next...
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affected areas. Such heterogeneous patterns mainly originate from a stark contrast in post-disaster reconstruction processes …
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Are new mayors more responsive to disasters than their reelected counterparts? The identification strategy is based on slim vote margin in which new and reelected mayors are found to be as if randomly assigned. We find that with greater storm exposure: new mayors spend more on health sector than...
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