Attitudes about containment measures during the 2020/2021 coronavirus pandemic : self-interest, or broader political orientations?

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Research & Politics ; 8 (2021), 3. - Sage Publications. - ISSN 2053-1680
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We analyze opposition towards Covid-19 containment measures by assessing the role of self-interest, sociotropic threat, political predispositions, and infection rates. We base our analyses on two waves of survey data from Germany (N = 3258/3201). Our measure of self-interest includes objective indicators for and subjective perceptions of individual threat from containment measures in the economic sphere and in the family and health domains. We also analyze whether the role of self-interest changes as the pandemic proceeds in its course. Our results show that self-interest plays a limited role in explaining attitudes about containment measures. More important are broader political predispositions such as trust in institutions, including the government. Attitudes are unrelated to local rates of infection or death. This pattern has remained stable over the course of the pandemic. We discuss the relevance of these findings with respect to the general enforceability of public policies that serve collective goals, such as efforts to limit climate change. Parts of the population may be reluctant to comply with these public policies even if the associated costs to the individual are small. This is less because of people’s personal circumstances, and more because of their opposition to government interventions as such.
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Pandemic, self-interest, trust, sociotropic threat, individual threat
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ISO 690DIEHL, Claudia, Felix WOLTER, 2021. Attitudes about containment measures during the 2020/2021 coronavirus pandemic : self-interest, or broader political orientations?. In: Research & Politics. Sage Publications. 8(3). ISSN 2053-1680. Available under: doi: 10.1177/20531680211035319
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  doi={10.1177/20531680211035319},
  title={Attitudes about containment measures during the 2020/2021 coronavirus pandemic : self-interest, or broader political orientations?},
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  journal={Research & Politics},
  author={Diehl, Claudia and Wolter, Felix}
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