Health international non-governmental organizations, democracy, and tuberculosis mortality in developing nations: A longitudinal analysis
| Autor: | Gary Maynard |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Economic growth
Political opportunity Tuberculosis Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Developing country medicine.disease Democracy 0506 political science 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine 050602 political science & public administration medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Sociology Polity media_common Social movement |
| Zdroj: | Sociological Spectrum. 36:303-320 |
| ISSN: | 1521-0707 0273-2173 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/02732173.2016.1169962 |
| Popis: | Using data from 1985 to 2005 for 74 developing nations, we conduct a longitudinal cross-national analysis examining the contentions of world polity theorists that health-related international non-governmental organizations (HINGOs) are effective at reducing tuberculosis mortality. We find support for this hypothesis in our models, yet we re-specify our models from a social movements perspective to examine any effects democracy may have on TB mortality. We do this by constructing an interaction term between HINGO concentration and level of democracy. As a result, we find that democracy moderates the effect of HINGOs on TB. Higher concentrations of HINGOs within developing nations are correlated with a larger beneficial effect on tuberculosis mortality in nations with high levels of democracy versus more repressive nations. This suggests that the effectiveness of HINGO programs in fighting TB mortality is contingent on the political opportunity structure within the countries where they operate. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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