Social distancing, politics and wealth

Ansell, Ben W.; Cansunar, Asli; Elkjær, Mads Andreas

doi:10.1080/01402382.2021.1917154

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“…Moreover, public trust matters directly for public-health policy, since it increases adherence to the advice of public health authorities and compliance with laws and regulations (Im et al 2014;Marien and Hooghe 2011). As also shown in other contributions in this special issue, public approval depends on trust in national leaders (Altiparmakis et al 2021), and compliance with the advice of health authorities on things like social distancing depends on populist political attitudes and the feeling of economic security (Ansell et al 2021). To our knowledge, our article is the first study that compares public opinion and political trust in Sweden and Denmark over time during the COVID-19 pandemic, although the comparison has been made many times in political commentary, media coverage, and think-tank reports.…”

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Trust in government in Sweden and Denmark during the COVID-19 epidemic

Nielsen

Lindvall

2021

West European Politics

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Did the different public-health policies that Sweden and Denmark pursued in the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic result in different levels of public trust in governments' and health authorities' ability to guide the two countries safely through the pandemic? How did the level of trust change as the pandemic unfolded? And were there any cross-country differences in the correlates of trust? Using three original representative surveys conducted in Sweden and Denmark between late March and late June, 2020, this article answers these questions. It finds that Danes consistently trusted their government and health authorities more than the Swedes did. While Swedish trust was politicized and shaped by ideology from the onset of the pandemic, this only later became the case in Denmark. The findings provide insights into popular evaluations of different public-health policies in two otherwise similar countries, with implications for future policy making.Sweden and Denmark adopted markedly different public-health policies during the COVID-19 pandemic. Whereas Sweden became famous, perhaps infamous, for its liberal approach, which relied heavily on principles of voluntarism and personal responsibility, Denmark opted for more stringent policies, closing its borders early on and shutting all its schools in the middle of March 2020. We ask how these policies influenced public trust in the ability of the Swedish and Danish governments and public-health authorities to guide the two countries safely through the pandemic. 1 In a global perspective, Sweden and Denmark are socially and institutionally similar countries, but they made very different choices when the new coronavirus spread across Europe in early 2020. This allows us to investigate whether differences in public-health policies mattered for how citizens felt about their political leaders and their public-health authorities.

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Trust in government in Sweden and Denmark during the COVID-19 epidemic

Nielsen

Lindvall

2021

West European Politics

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“…In Britain, compliance with rules mandating staying at home and social distancing has been found to be more prevalent among low socio-economic households (Smith et al, 2020;Fancourt et al, 2021; see also footnote 21), while compliance with isolation rules has been found more prevalent among high socio-economic households (Smith et al, 2021). Levels of homeworking, along with the ability to work at home, have been found to be greater among high income groups than among low income groups (Felstead and Reuschke, 2020;Ansell et al, 2021;Atchison et al, 2021), suggesting the costs of avoiding workplaces are lower for wealthier individuals.…”

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Perceived risk crowds out trust? Trust and public compliance with coronavirus restrictions over the course of the pandemic

Seyd

2022

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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Governments rely on citizen compliance for official rules to be effective. Yet achieving compliance is often tricky, particular when individual costs are high. Under what conditions will citizens voluntarily respect collective rules? We explore public compliance with SARS-CoV-2 (coronavirus) restrictions, focusing on the role of political trust. We anticipate that the effects of trust on compliance will be conditional on the presence of other factors, notably fear of infection. Low levels of fear may provide room for trust to shape compliance; yet high levels of fear may ‘crowd out’ the role of trust. We hypothesize that, at the pandemic’s outset, compliance was likely to be shaped more by fear than by trust. Yet as the pandemic progressed, the impact of fear on compliance was likely to have weakened, and the impact of trust to have strengthened. These hypotheses are tested using longitudinal data from Austria, Germany, and the United Kingdom.

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“…Similar findings come from Barrios and Hochberg (2020), who show that the risk perception of COVID-19 is moderated by partisan bias. Concerned with European countries, Ansell et al (2021) show that regional populist support is correlated with reduced social distancing compliance.…”

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Populism and COVID-19: How Populist Governments (Mis)Handle the Pandemic

Bayerlein

Boese

Gates

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The Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy (JPIPE) will publish cutting edge work at the intersection of these two interrelated fields of study: Political institutions (systems of politics and government or structures of voluntary cooperation that resolve collective-action and coordination problems in society) and Political economy (interdisciplinary studies drawing upon economics, political science, and law to explain how political institutions, the political environment, and the economic system interact and influence each other).Concentrations in political institutions include: (1) studies of particular institutions, like legislatures, executives, judiciaries, interest groups, parties, and bureaucracies; (2) cross-institutional studies, which examine how multiple institutions interact; and (3) studies of system-level institutions and their effects, like constitutionalism, federalism, presidentialism, and parliamentarism. Concentrations in political economy include: (1) comparative political economy, which focuses on the role of governmental institutions and/or power relationships in resource allocation for each type of economic system, (2) international political economy, which analyzes the economic impact of international relations and legal regimes, and (3) formal models of political processes, wherein voters, representatives, and bureaucrats are assumed to behave in rational (self-interested) ways.

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Social distancing, politics and wealth

Cited by 20 publications

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Trust in government in Sweden and Denmark during the COVID-19 epidemic

Trust in government in Sweden and Denmark during the COVID-19 epidemic

Perceived risk crowds out trust? Trust and public compliance with coronavirus restrictions over the course of the pandemic

Populism and COVID-19: How Populist Governments (Mis)Handle the Pandemic

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