@article{ref1,
title="The squeaky wheel gets the grease: violent civil unrest and global social assistance provision",
journal="Front. Sociol.",
year="2022",
author="Çemen, Rahmi and Yörük, Erdem",
volume="7",
number="",
pages="e891267-e891267",
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 &quot;structuralist&quot; and &quot;political&quot; theories on a new panel dataset which includes 54 OECD and emerging market countries between 2002 and 2015. The results indicate social assistance coverage has a significant positive relationship with riots. We explain this outcome as policymakers expanding social assistance as a means of containing violent civil unrest. This effect is more significant in emerging markets, suggesting that the domination of structural explanations is a result of sample bias toward the OECD. Finally, we find that governments consider World Bank social policy recommendations only insofar as there is violent unrest.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2297-7775",
doi="10.3389/fsoc.2022.891267",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2022.891267"
}