Dutch COVID-19 lockdown measures increased trust in government and trust in science: A difference-in-differences analysis

Groeniger, Joost Oude; Noordzij, Kjell; Waal, Jeroen van der; Koster, Willem de

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.113819

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“…We see a sizeable jump in trust in government by 19 percentage points in Germany and 9 points in the USA between 2019 and 2020 and then a receding level of trust in 2021. 7 This increase in political trust after the onset of the pandemic has been demonstrated for other contexts in Western Europe (BOL et al 2021;Oude Groeniger et al 2021;SCHRAFF 2020). In both countries, there was an increase in approval of the national leader.…”

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confidence: 74%

Solidarities, Fairness, and Economic Governance in Advanced Capitalism: The Cases of COVID-19 Responses in Germany and the United States

Goerres

Vail

2021

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This paper addresses the theoretical question of how competing models of social and economic solidarity shape patterns of economic governance in periods of economic crisis. Using the COVID-19 pandemic as a signal case, we seek to understand how changes in public opinion in response to similar social and economic shocks are informed by deeper ideational structures among citizens relating to their capacity for empathy, mutual support, and willingness to support and trust public policy interventions. Drawing on scholarly literatures related to moral economies and the social embeddedness of economic relationships, we undertake an empirical study of how the COVID-19 pandemic has shaped patterns of support for social and economic policies. We focus on Germany and the United States, countries with widely divergent modes of integration of capitalist markets and, therefore, potentially different levels of support for particular kinds of policy responses. We trace American and German policy responses since March 2020 across a number of domains, complemented by a systematic analysis of public opinion in the two countries, drawing from fifteen different sources of public-opinion data, in order to assess the pandemic's effects on public support for individualized and collectively-oriented policy responses.

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Section: Empirical Analysis: Public Opinion Reactionsmentioning

confidence: 74%

Solidarities, Fairness, and Economic Governance in Advanced Capitalism: The Cases of COVID-19 Responses in Germany and the United States

Goerres

Vail

2021

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“…Because there are countries where the measures were proposed by civil protection bodies and not by the government, it is possible that the trust towards such institutions might be a stronger moderator of the association. Also, how trust in government influences individual compliance depends on other factors such as current and/or past state regimes (Schmelz, 2021 ), age and estimated health conditions (Groeniger et al, 2021 ), and the importance of believing that taking health precautions will be effective for avoiding COVID‐19 (Clark et al, 2020 ).…”

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Iron fists and velvet gloves: Investigating the associations between the stringency of governments’ responses to COVID‐19, stress, and compliance in the early stages of the pandemic

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British J Social Psychol

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To tackle the spread of COVID‐19, governments worldwide have implemented restrictive public health behavioural measures. Whether and when these measures lead to positive or negative psychological outcomes is still debated. In this study, drawing on a large sample of individuals ( N total = 89,798) from 45 nations, we investigated whether the stringency of public health measures implemented at the outset of the COVID‐19 pandemic in March–May 2020 was associated with individuals’ levels of stress and compliance. Moreover, we addressed the question of how these associations may be moderated by the measures’ implementation lag, nations’ tolerance for unequal distributions of power (i.e., power distance), and individuals’ institutional trust. Linear mixed models suggested that slower implementation of less stringent measures was associated with higher stress and lower compliance. Also, rapid implementation of stricter measures was associated with a mild increase in stress. Such effects were especially pronounced in countries with less tolerance for inequality. Albeit significant, the moderating effect of institutional trust was very small. The results suggest that it may be important to consider the measures’ implementation lag when tackling the spread of COVID‐19, but findings should be interpreted in relation to the data collection period.

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“…While some individuals felt confident in the decisions of government entities to implement restrictions, others felt that government mandates threatened their human rights and independence (Jakovljevic et al 2020). During COVID-19, trust in government increased in some countries (Oude Groeniger et al 2021;Goldfinch et al 2021;Pak et al 2021), whereas trust has eroded in others (Deslatte 2020). People's trust in the medical advice and information received from the government determines the public compliance with the recommendations (Newton 2020;Jakovljevic et al 2020;Wong and Jensen 2020;Guillon and Kergall 2020;OECD 2013).…”

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Perceived Trust in Public Authorities Nine Months after the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Cross-National Study

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This study aimed to examine the perceived trust in information provided by public authorities and financial measures put in place to address the impact of COVID-19. Using a cross-national approach among four Western countries—the United States of America, Norway, Australia, and the United Kingdom—provides an analysis of responses related to trust and how they were associated with age group, gender, education level, employment status, size of place of residence, infection status, and social media use. When controlling for all included variables in logistic regression analyses, the likelihood of having trust in the public authorities’ information was higher for women, those with higher levels of education, and those living in urban areas. Being infected with the coronavirus, and spending more time daily on social media, were both associated with lower likelihood of reporting trust in information. Although policies implemented to respond to economic concerns varied cross-nationally, higher age, identifying as female, being employed, living in a city, no COVID-19 infection experience and lower levels of social media usage were associated with a higher likelihood of trusting in the financial measures put in place to counteract the economic effects of COVID-19.

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Dutch COVID-19 lockdown measures increased trust in government and trust in science: A difference-in-differences analysis

Cited by 83 publications

References 32 publications

Solidarities, Fairness, and Economic Governance in Advanced Capitalism: The Cases of COVID-19 Responses in Germany and the United States

Solidarities, Fairness, and Economic Governance in Advanced Capitalism: The Cases of COVID-19 Responses in Germany and the United States

Iron fists and velvet gloves: Investigating the associations between the stringency of governments’ responses to COVID‐19, stress, and compliance in the early stages of the pandemic

Perceived Trust in Public Authorities Nine Months after the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Cross-National Study

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