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Disease, Disaster, and Disengagement: Ebola and Political Participation in Sierra Leone
Studies in Comparative International Development ( IF 2.591 ) Pub Date : 2020-06-12 , DOI: 10.1007/s12116-020-09300-x
Benjamin Crisman

How do widespread public health crises affect political behavior? This article examines the impact of the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak on political participation in Sierra Leone. In addition to the effects observed following conflict and natural disasters, I present evidence that hardship brought on by the outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) substantially decreased participation in civic affairs, measured in self-reported political activity using data from an Afrobarometer survey conducted near the end of the outbreak. To account for selection and endogeneity concerns, I undertake falsification and coefficient stability approaches in addition to controlling for levels of political activity in the 2012 national election. The negative effect seems driven in part by a reduction in trust and perceived performance of traditional institutions and not from an increase in economic insecurity, highlighting the role of external efficacy rather than resource-based mechanisms in mediating the relationship between exposure to the disease and participation.

中文翻译:

疾病、灾难和脱离接触:塞拉利昂的埃博拉和政治参与

广泛的公共卫生危机如何影响政治行为?本文研究了 2014 年西非埃博拉疫情对塞拉利昂政治参与的影响。除了在冲突和自然灾害之后观察到的影响之外,我还提供了证据表明,埃博拉病毒病 (EVD) 的爆发带来的困难大大减少了对公民事务的参与,这是使用非洲晴雨表调查的数据通过自我报告的政治活动来衡量的疫情接近尾声。为了考虑选择和内生性问题,除了控制 2012 年全国大选中的政治活动水平外,我还采用了伪造和系数稳定性方法。
更新日期:2020-06-12
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