2022
DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2022.891267
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The squeaky wheel gets the grease: Violent civil unrest and global social assistance provision

Abstract: What are the contemporary determinates of social assistance provision? What is the role of contentious politics? Social assistance literature is dominated by economic and demographic accounts, which under-examine the possibility that governments extend social assistance to contain social unrest. We test factors associated with these “structuralist” and “political” theories on a new panel dataset which includes 54 OECD and emerging market countries between 2002 and 2015. The results indicate social assistance c… Show more

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