Politics of natural disaster : how governments maintain legitimacy in the wake of major disasters, 1990-2010
This dissertation is about major natural disasters, and how they contribute to legitimacy crises of governments. Three major factors explain the emergence of a legitimacy crisis in a post-disaster context: the frequency of disaster occurrence, the quality of the government response to disasters, and...
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University of Iowa
2013
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| Online Access: | https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1566 https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5618&context=etd |