Healthy populations, political stability, and regime type: Southeast Asia as a case study

Davies, Sara E.

doi:10.1017/s0260210514000321

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“…We therefore aim to uncover the relationship between the quality of public health policy and state innovation capacity in order to recommend that countries around the world pay attention to the formulation and implementation of public health policies. We suggest that policy quality in public health is a relevant factor in governance and can contribute substantially to state innovation capacity, and this intuition is supported by an analysis of a subset of the literature on the relationship between policy and innovation ( 19 – 25 ).…”

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Does public health policy quality foster state innovation capacity? Evidence from a global panel data

Xiaoyi

Gao²,

Liu³

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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The design and implementation of public health policy may shape state innovation capacity with governance effectiveness, political stability, and government integrity. Previous studies, however, failed to incorporate these relationships simultaneously. This study aims to combine two distinct scholarships to examine whether the quality of policies in the public health sector contributes to state innovation capacity. We extracted data from the WHO international health regulatory dataset covering the WHO Member States between 2010 and 2017 to investigate the relationship (N = 145). Our fixed-effects models and regression discontinuity design (RDD) suggest a positive impact of public health policy quality on state innovation capacity. There are several contributions to the study of the relationship between public health and innovation in this study. Firstly, it fills a theoretical void concerning the relationship between policy development and implementation in the public health sector and country-specific innovations. Second, it provides an empirical quantitative analysis of policy quality in the public health sector. Third, this study contributes evidence that public health plays an important role in fostering state innovation beyond urbanization, investment in science and technology, and foreign trade. Furthermore, our quasi-experimental evidence found that this mechanism may be significant only between the more politically stable countries and the most politically stable countries. These contributions have empirical implications for governments across the world that seek to balance public health and innovation capacity in the context of the post-pandemic era.

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confidence: 63%

Does public health policy quality foster state innovation capacity? Evidence from a global panel data

Xiaoyi

Gao²,

Liu³

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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“…It is a sad fact of war that the victims often confront the greatest challenges in the transition to peace (Ghobarah, Adam, and Bruce 2003). The greater the damage to their physical and mental well-being as a consequence of war, the more susceptible individuals become to intimidation and threats of violence (Davies 2014). While not all those who survive exist in a perilous state indefinitely, as many may be quite resilient and become motivated to speak truth to power, those who can be intimidated represent prime opportunities for targeted violence (King and Meernik 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…First, those who are suffering from health problems may present an attractive target for conflict actors seeking to sideline and silence individuals whose testimony may undermine their claim to power. Given that “healthier post-conflict communities are less likely to return to violence” (Davies 2014, 861), those who are healthier after the fighting stops may be less likely to be “targets” of aggression. Second, those who experienced greater trauma during the war may be more likely to be preyed upon because of their weakened state.…”

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The Security Consequences of Bearing Witness

Meernik

King

2019

Journal of Conflict Resolution

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It is a central assumption of our research that threats to a fragile security and violence can continue during postconflict peacebuilding and that these threats are driven by many of the same sociopolitical dynamics that initially led to war. We examine a critical but much less queried area of postwar societal instability—violence directed at segments of the population who may still be targets for those seeking dominance. Using a survey of 300 individuals who testified before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), we seek to explain violence, threats of violence, and other forms of intimidation directed at those who witnessed human rights violations during the wars in the former Yugoslavia. Our theory of postwar violence emphasizes the vulnerability of the (potential) victims of postwar violence. We argue that victims are selectively chosen because of their vulnerability. We develop and test an alternative explanation for this selective targeting that emphasizes the level of exposure an individual may have because of testifying at the ICTY. The results demonstrate quite convincingly, however, that it is vulnerability rather than exposure risk that predicts who is most likely to be targeted with human security threats.

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“…Political stability and regime types have also been studied more recently from economic, foreign aid (Caselli, 2011), health (Davies, 2014) and political participation (Ekman, 2019;Sottilotta, 2013) perspectives. These studies look more into external non-political factors that may contribute to political stability or instability directly or indirectly.…”

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Regime Types or Party Systems: What Matters More For Political Instability In The Developing World?

Moniruzzaman

2015

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Political stability is desired by every state. But is it contingent upon regime types or party systems? Existing studies on political stability suggest that regimes such as authoritarianism, democracy, and dictatorship and their variants have variously influenced political stability. Some have proved to be friendly with political stability in certain countries, while counterproductive for some other. However, the existing literature has exclusively focused on regime types alone neglecting the factor of party systems. This ar ticle argues that not only regime types but party systems also influence political stability. Based on data from Asia, Africa and Latin America this article examines the following four assumptions. Firstly, absolute monarchy and absolute authoritarianism together with no or one party system generally maintain political stability. Secondly, constitutional monarchies together with multiparty system generally maintain political stability. Thirdly, presidentialism together with dominant party system generally maintains political stability. And finally, parliamentarianism together with multi-party system is generally negatively related with political stability.

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Healthy populations, political stability, and regime type: Southeast Asia as a case study

Cited by 7 publications

References 49 publications

Does public health policy quality foster state innovation capacity? Evidence from a global panel data

Does public health policy quality foster state innovation capacity? Evidence from a global panel data

The Security Consequences of Bearing Witness

Regime Types or Party Systems: What Matters More For Political Instability In The Developing World?

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