POLITICAL TRUST AND SOCIAL COHESION AT A TIME OF CRISIS The Impact of COVID-19 on Kurdistan Region-Iraq

المؤلفون

  • Mohammedali Yaseen Taha Department of Political Science, College of Law and Politics, Nawroz University, Kurdistan Region, IRAQ
  • Juline Beaujouan Research Associate, Political Settlements Research Programme, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
  • Amjed Rasheed Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Government and Inter. Affairs, Durham University, United Kingdom

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25007/ajnu.v10n2a999

الملخص

COVID-19 has attracted much attention in Kurdish neighbourhoods and has been relayed massively by the media across the KRI. Kurdistanis put their trust mostly in television as the most accessible source of information across the region. Conversely, social media was not considered a reliable source of information during the pandemic.

 

The results of this survey highlight a strong lack of trust in federal political figures and institutions. At the regional level, Kurdistanis are divided along lines of political affiliation and geography. While respondents from Duhok and Erbil expressed a high level of trust in the KRG, people of Silemani are openly distrustful of the KRI government.

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منشور

2021-05-18

كيفية الاقتباس

Yaseen Taha, M., Beaujouan, J., & Rasheed, A. (2021). POLITICAL TRUST AND SOCIAL COHESION AT A TIME OF CRISIS The Impact of COVID-19 on Kurdistan Region-Iraq. المجلة الأكاديمية لجامعة نوروز, 10(2), 86–112. https://doi.org/10.25007/ajnu.v10n2a999

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