{"id":15825,"date":"2017-10-25T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T13:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15825"},"modified":"2017-10-22T22:27:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T02:27:30","slug":"the-politics-of-american-disaster-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/the-politics-of-american-disaster-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"The Politics Of American Disaster Relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/102317_0107_ThePolitics1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"361\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Diaster relief in America is sensitive to electoral concerns wrote The Economist:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A study found that both Republican and Democrat Presidents are twice as likely to declare a disaster if a calamity occurs in a politically competitive swing state such as Ohio or Florida.<\/li>\n<li>Voting for the President helps. A 1% percentage increase in the number of votes for the President&#8217;s party is correlated with a 1% increase in disaster funding.<\/li>\n<li>This form of electoral spending is expensive. It costs Presidents $27,000 for every additional vote it earns them.<\/li>\n<li>More responsible Presidents would invest in disaster preparation to stave off the need for aid in the future \u2013 but studies show that voters don&#8217;t reward Presidents that do this.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/united-states\/21730430-federal-aid-sent-puerto-rico-fits-longstanding-pattern-counties-voted?frsc=dg%7Ce\">The Economist<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diaster relief in America is sensitive to electoral concerns wrote The Economist: A study found that both Republican and Democrat Presidents are twice as likely to declare a disaster if a calamity occurs in a politically competitive swing state such as Ohio or Florida. Voting for the President helps. A 1% percentage increase in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/102317_0107_ThePolitics1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15841,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15825\/revisions\/15841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}