Determinants of Post‐flood Social and Institutional Trust Among Disaster Victims

Akbar, Muhammad Siddique; Aldrich, Daniel P.

doi:10.1111/1468-5973.12152

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“…With the exception of Skitka (1999), we are aware of virtually no research that has examined whether these attitudes and their conjectured motivations remain true in situations, like disasters, that lack great predictability and individual control. In those studies that have considered support for a government response to disasters, the occurrence of a major disaster often reduces the trust of the general public in government programs (Han 2011;Dussaillant and Guzman 2014;Fleming et al 2014;Akbar and Aldrich 2017). Experience with subsequent distributions of government aid have been found to have mixed effects on public trust and approval of government institutions more generally.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Private Support for Public Disaster Aid

Husted

Nickerson

2021

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Despite its growing economic and political importance, this is the first study in economics to investigate public opinion in the United States regarding both the allocation of government disaster aid to stricken households and communities as well as total expenditures by government on such aid. This is also the first study to bridge a gap in previous research on disasters by comparing and contrasting our results to related behavioral studies from political science, social psychology and sociology. Combining individual data from the 2006 General Social Survey with county-level information about the local environment of survey respondents, we estimate probit models to ascertain the magnitude and significance of the socioeconomic, demographic, political and experiential determinants of public opinion on these issues. Among other results, we find that Black survey respondents strongly support increasing total aid expenditures and aid to affected households and communities while income, age and a conservative political ideology largely exert a negative influence on these same variables. Surprisingly, the effects of prior experience with disasters and educational level have only a weak effect on the allocation of aid and none on the level of expenditures on aid. These and other results are consistent with only a portion of previous findings from other disciplines. Several implications of our results for current federal disaster policy are discussed and we also suggest directions for further research into this important topic.

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Private Support for Public Disaster Aid

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Nickerson

2021

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“…Community resilience is one of the most critical factors that influences network building and trust among community members in LIM AND NAKAZATO | 117 disaster areas, and it improves the effectiveness of disaster recovery processes (Akbar & Aldrich, 2017;Aldrich, 2012;Comfort, Boin, & Demchak, 2010;Kapucu, Hawkins, & Rivera, 2013a, 2013bRoss, 2014). However, the previous literature is limited in its examination of (a) whether community members' perceptions of community resilience contribute to the formation of supportive networks among them; (b) whether the feeling of community resilience can be affected through ties to supporters in the communities, and (c) which driving forces between (a) and (b) are more commonly observed over time.…”

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Co‐evolving supportive networks and perceived community resilience across disaster‐damaged areas after the Great East Japan Earthquake: Selection, influence, or both?

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Nakazato

2018

Contingencies & Crisis Mgmt

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After the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami in March 2011, the new community currency experiment for supporting disaster recovery, Fukkou Ouen Chiiki Tsuka, was introduced by community‐based organizations in these earthquake‐damaged areas. However, little is known about how perceived community resilience coevolves with interactions in the disaster recovery process. Using Simultaneous Investigation for Empirical Network Analysis techniques, this study shows the coevolutionary dynamics between perceptions of community resilience and the formation of supportive links among residents through a community currency (“Domo”) in Kamaishi. This study also provides policy implications for how mutual reinforcement between community residents’ engagement in network establishments and building a sense of community resilience among those affected functions as a potential mechanism for facilitating disaster recovery.

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“…Earthquakes in China (1976) and Turkey (1999) resulted in authoritarian regimes advancing their own visions of development while quashing burgeoning oppositional discourse (Pelling, ). A state's response to a natural hazard‐based disaster frequently is dependent on the degree of ‘trust’ that people place in ruling regimes and their ‘belief’ in an institutional response as determined by the nature and type of state‐citizen contracts (Chamlee‐Wright and Storr, ; Akbar and Aldrich, ).…”

Section: The State‐citizen Relationship: Disasters and Insecurity In mentioning

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Stories from the frontlines: decolonising social contracts for disasters

Siddiqi

Canuday

2018

Disasters

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Disasters are framed as political moments when states are unable to provide security to their citizens, causing disruption and a possible 'break' in the state-citizen social contract. Evidence from the frontlines of insurgency and secessionist movements in southern Philippines suggests that social contracts do not 'break' in this manner, despite widespread suffering during a complex event. This paper presents new perspectives on social contracts after disasters, in conflict-affected regions. Using ethnographic data from two case studies in the Philippines, it argues that disasters in conflict-affected areas do not manifest a 'break' in social contracts in ways that result in 'state failure' and 'insurgent capture'. Instead, it shows that the state-citizen contract is a dynamic contestation of state responsibilities, while also being malleably resilient. The inequalities and anxieties prevalent in social contracts are reproduced in the highly differentiated experiences of 'disaster citizenship' for people living amidst conflict.

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Determinants of Post‐flood Social and Institutional Trust Among Disaster Victims

Cited by 27 publications

References 27 publications

Private Support for Public Disaster Aid

Private Support for Public Disaster Aid

Co‐evolving supportive networks and perceived community resilience across disaster‐damaged areas after the Great East Japan Earthquake: Selection, influence, or both?

Stories from the frontlines: decolonising social contracts for disasters

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