Local Politicians as Linking Social Capital: An Empirical Test of Political Behavior after Japan’s 3/11 Disasters
Local Politicians as Linking Social Capital: An Empirical Test of Political Behavior after Japan’s 3/11 Disasters
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地方政治家作为社会资本的纽带：日本 3/11 灾难后政治行为的实证检验
DOI：
10.1007/s11069-016-2503-x
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发表时间：
2016
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影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Daniel P. Aldrich and Yoshikuni Ono
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作者：
Daniel P. Aldrich and Yoshikuni Ono
在大规模灾难之后，地方决策者有大量潜在的咨询和援助来源。然而，我们对政客在地方、地区和国家层面接触的对象知之甚少，也不知道是什么推动了与这些目标的接触强度。本研究使用来自日本东北地区各城市、町村的240多名理事会成员的原始调查数据，调查了2011年3月11日灾害复合后影响协商的因素。我们发现，他们的外展演员，包括国家一级的政治家，州长，县的政治家，公务员和地方选民的强烈变化。控制一些复合因素，如城镇规模，财政能力，和政治家的个人特征，我们发现，在自己的社区的损害程度强烈影响危机后的外联。破坏越大，当地政客就越多地接触到更广泛的潜在有用的关系网。党派和独立的镇理事会成员的行为不同;那些与党派有联系的人（特别是那些与执政党有联系的人）比那些没有联系的人更主动。我们的研究结果的多样性和强度的外展带来了重要的影响，居民，政治家和非政府组织在灾难后。
After a massive catastrophe, local decision makers have a large number of potential sources of advice and assistance. Yet, we know little about those to whom politicians reach out at the local, regional, and national levels, and what drives the intensity of contact with these targets. Using original survey data drawn from more than 240 council members from cities, towns, and villages in the Tohoku region of Japan, we investigate the factors influencing consultation after the March 11, 2011, compounded disasters. We find strong variation in their outreach to actors, including national-level politicians, governors, prefectural politicians, civil servants, and local constituents. Controlling for a number of compounding factors, such as town size, financial capability, and personal characteristics of the politician, we find that the degree of damage in their own communities robustly influences outreach after crisis. The more damage, the more local politicians reach out to a broader network of potentially useful connections more often. Partisan and independent town council members behave differently; those with party connections (especially those with connections to a governing party) reach out more than those without. Our findings about diversity and intensity of outreach bring important implications for residents, politicians, and non-governmental organizations after disaster.