講　題：Governing Disaster: Political Institution, Social Inequality and Human Vulnerability [中文演講]

主講人：林宗弘 助研究員(中央研究院社會學研究所)

時間：100年9月23日（星期五）下午2時30分 - 下午4時30分

地點：中研院人文館南棟社會所802會議室

演講摘要
The paper argues that state capacity and regime type, two fundamental elements of modern political institution, shaped the distribution of disaster hazard in the global human community. Four catastrophic earthquakes happened in Japan, India, China and Haiti are the major cases used to demonstrate how the state capacity and regime type influenced human vulnerability. A panel data included 155 countries from 1995 to 2009 are used to illustrate the relationship between state capacity, democracy, social inequality and the impact of disaster. After controlling economic development and dependency ratio, the empirical finding shows that despite of social inequality, the “political vulnerability,” i.e., weaker state and non-democratic regime, are significantly associated with the higher number of disaster victims.

講者簡介
香港科技大學社會科學部博士，現任中央研究院社會所助研究員、台灣社會學會副秘書長兼通訊主編，研究專長為社會階層化、量化研究、中國研究、災難 社會學、比較政治經濟學。

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