Explaining Public Attitudes towards Public Policy in the Covid19 Pandemic.

Abstract

The Covid19 pandemic is not only affecting people around the world in their daily life but also poses a new set of challenges for public policy and political competition. Whether it is the balance between individual freedoms and collective health, national interest and international solidarity, questions of expert influence in policymaking, or the role of ideas like fiscal responsibility, the pandemic creates new problems with both practical and principle dimensions. How does the pandemic affect the representative relationship between citizens and parties? How do citizens cope with these challenges? Which citizens feel more or less affected by the pandemic and which consequences does this have for their political preferences and behaviours? Which solutions do citizens prefer, under which circumstances, and how can we explain these? This panel brings together a range of studies that use original data to each answer several of these questions from different angles. They investigate how citizens form attitudes towards and in conjunction with the Covid19 pandemic, and how these affect their voting behaviour and their policy preferences.

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