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Temporal Clustering of Disorder Events During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Temporal Clustering of Disorder Events During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed multiple public health, socio-economic, and institutional crises. Measures taken to slow the spread of the virus have fostered significant strain between authorities and citizens, leading to waves of social unrest and anti-government demonstrations. We study the temporal nature of pandemic-related disorder events as tallied by the "COVID-19 Disorder Tracker" initiative by focusing on the three countries with the largest number of incidents, India, Israel, and Mexico. By fitting Poisson and Hawkes processes to the stream of data, we find that disorder events are inter-dependent and self-excite in all three countries. Geographic clustering confirms these features at the subnational level, indicating that nationwide disorders emerge as the convergence of meso-scale patterns of self-excitation. Considerable diversity is observed among countries when computing correlations of events between subnational clusters; these are discussed in the context of specific political, societal and geographic characteristics. Israel, the most territorially compact and where large scale protests were coordinated in response to government lockdowns, displays the largest reactivity and the shortest period of influence following an event, as well as the strongest nationwide synchrony. In Mexico, where complete lockdown orders were never mandated, reactivity and nationwide synchrony are lowest. Our work highlights the need for authorities to promote local information campaigns to ensure that livelihoods and virus containment policies are not perceived as mutually exclusive.
37 pages, 16 figures
- University of Milano-Bicocca Italy
- University of California, Los Angeles United States
- Department of Sociology and Social Research - University of Milano-Bicocca Italy
- University of Trento Italy
- The University Corporation, Northridge United States
Microsoft Academic Graph classification: Pandemic media_common Convergence (economics) Livelihood Geography Scale (social sciences) media_common.quotation_subject Context (language use) Civil disorder Development economics Government Diversity (politics)
FOS: Computer and information sciences, Viral Diseases, Computer Science - Machine Learning, General Economics (econ.GN), Epidemiology, Economics, Social Sciences, Machine Learning (cs.LG), Geographical Locations, Medical Conditions, Medicine and Health Sciences, Cluster Analysis, Israel, Economics - General Economics, Multidisciplinary, Geography, Q, R, Infectious Diseases, Medicine, Public Health, Research Article, Physics - Physics and Society, Asia, Science, FOS: Physical sciences, India, Civil Disorders, Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph), Human Geography, Statistics - Applications, FOS: Economics and business, Urban Geography, Health Economics, Humans, Applications (stat.AP), Cities, Mexico, Pandemics, SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19; Civil Disorders; Cluster Analysis; Communicable Disease Control; Humans; India; Israel; Mexico; Pandemics; Public Health; SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, Covid 19, Health Care, Medical Risk Factors, People and Places, North America, Communicable Disease Control, Earth Sciences
FOS: Computer and information sciences, Viral Diseases, Computer Science - Machine Learning, General Economics (econ.GN), Epidemiology, Economics, Social Sciences, Machine Learning (cs.LG), Geographical Locations, Medical Conditions, Medicine and Health Sciences, Cluster Analysis, Israel, Economics - General Economics, Multidisciplinary, Geography, Q, R, Infectious Diseases, Medicine, Public Health, Research Article, Physics - Physics and Society, Asia, Science, FOS: Physical sciences, India, Civil Disorders, Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph), Human Geography, Statistics - Applications, FOS: Economics and business, Urban Geography, Health Economics, Humans, Applications (stat.AP), Cities, Mexico, Pandemics, SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19; Civil Disorders; Cluster Analysis; Communicable Disease Control; Humans; India; Israel; Mexico; Pandemics; Public Health; SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, Covid 19, Health Care, Medical Risk Factors, People and Places, North America, Communicable Disease Control, Earth Sciences
Microsoft Academic Graph classification: Pandemic media_common Convergence (economics) Livelihood Geography Scale (social sciences) media_common.quotation_subject Context (language use) Civil disorder Development economics Government Diversity (politics)
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