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JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN PUBLIC POLICY
Volume 30, Issue 12, Pages 2601-2622Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2022.2123024
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Co-production; public health; Sweden; vaccination
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The aim of this study is to identify the most vaccine-hesitant groups in Sweden, a contemporary democratic state. The findings, obtained through two surveys, have important implications for public-health policy and theories of how governments can convince citizens to participate in achieving important social goals.
The aim of this paper is to identify the most vaccine-hesitant groups in a contemporary democratic state, Sweden. We rely on two representative surveys that were conducted in 2020 and that asked Swedish citizens how likely they were to accept immunization with a Covid-19 vaccine if one were offered to them. Using clustering methods, we find a wide variety of vaccine-hesitant groups, with the highest levels of vaccine hesitancy among individuals who combine low personal health risks with political orientations and ideological convictions that are associated with antivaccinationist attitudes. The paper's findings have important implications for public-health policy and, more broadly, for theories of how governments can convince individual citizens to play their part in achieving important social goals.
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