The political cost of sanctions: Evidence from COVID-19

Fazio, Andrea; Reggiani, Tommaso; Sabatini, Fabio

doi:10.1016/j.healthpol.2022.06.008

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“…Second, we contribute to the literature linking the COVID-19 crisis to individual preferences and political attitudes. Research has shown that the pandemic crisis affects people's views on a number of outcomes such as trust in national governments (Esaiasson et al 2020;Fazio et al 2022;Hensel et al 2022;Lazarus et al 2020;Saka et al 2022), economic anxiety (Fetzer et al 2020) and support for safety-net programs (Balasundharam et al 2021;Rees-Jones et al 2020). Asaria et al (2021) investigate the effect of the pandemic shock on income and health inequality aversion in the United Kingdom, Italy, and Germany.…”

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Collective negative shocks and preferences for redistribution: Evidence from the COVID-19 crisis in Germany

2023

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Using new data from a three-wave panel survey administered in Germany between May 2020 and May 2021, this paper studies the impact of a negative shock affecting all strata of the population, such as the development of COVID-19, on preferences for redistribution. Exploiting the plausibly exogenous change in the severity of the infection rate at the county level, we show that, contrary to some theoretical expectations, the worse the crisis, the less our respondents expressed support for redistribution. We provide further evidence that this is not driven by a decrease in inequality aversion but might be driven by the individuals’ level of trust.

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Collective negative shocks and preferences for redistribution: Evidence from the COVID-19 crisis in Germany

2023

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Humanitarian aid under sanctions: From the problem statement to the search for solutions

Oganisyan L.D.

2023

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In the context of a sharp aggravation of interstate rivalry, an increase in natural disasters and the emergence of new epidemiological challenges, the problem of timely provision of humanitarian assistance to the population of the most affected countries and regions becomes especially acute. Its solution, already fraught with a whole complex of objective economic, political and other difficulties, is further complicated by the existing practice of imposing unilateral and multilateral or international sanctions, which have become one of the key instruments of the leading subjects of world politics. And although formally sanctions regimes are provided with humanitarian exceptions designed to minimize their negative consequences for the population of target countries, their imposition inevitably results in new obstacles to the provision of humanitarian assistance to those in need. The paper identifies the key challenges associated with provision of humanitarian aid under the existing sanctions restrictions, and assesses the prospects for addressing them in the contemporary context. The first section examines political and academic debates on the negative humanitarian consequences of sanctions and possible ways to overcome them. In particular, the author identifies the logic behind the transition from comprehensive to ‘smart’ sanctions, as well as the specifics of applying humanitarian exceptions. The second section outlines key aspects of the complex disruptive impact of restrictions on humanitarian assistance, including the technical and political barriers faced in the implementation of humanitarian exceptions. Finally, the third section identifies current trends in the use of humanitarian exceptions by the main initiators of restrictive measures. In this context, particular attention is paid to the UN Security Council Resolution 2664, adopted in December 2022, which mandates the inclusion of standardized exemptions in UN sanctions regimes in order to minimize the impact of restrictive measures on the provision of assistance and to alleviate the suffering of those in need. The author concludes that although there still remain possibilities to address the negative humanitarian consequences of sanctions, this requires strong political will on the part of the international community.

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The political cost of sanctions: Evidence from COVID-19

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Collective negative shocks and preferences for redistribution: Evidence from the COVID-19 crisis in Germany

Collective negative shocks and preferences for redistribution: Evidence from the COVID-19 crisis in Germany

Humanitarian aid under sanctions: From the problem statement to the search for solutions

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