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POLITICAL RESEARCH QUARTERLY
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SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/10659129231221486
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disaster preparedness; disaster preparation; COVID-19; public health; voter learning
Scholars argue that the public tends to prioritize disaster response over preparedness spending due to their myopic attitudes. However, this study shows that information can shift public attitudes and increase support for preparedness policies. These findings provide important insights into public opinion and preparedness spending.
Some scholars argue that the public is generally myopic in their attitudes about disaster preparedness spending, because they prefer to spend money on disaster response rather than preparedness, despite the greater cost effectiveness of the later. Given voters' general lack of policy information, it is possible that limited support for preparedness comes from lack of information about its efficacy. In this paper, we build on these studies by examining how people respond to new information about the effectiveness of policy initiatives in the context of public health and the COVID-19 pandemic. Through two online survey experiments with over 3400 respondents, we demonstrate that information can lead people to update attitudes about preparedness, illustrating the potential for information campaigns to increase support for preparedness policies. Our results suggest that information about the efficacy of preparedness can increase support for these policies, and the information effect exists even for individuals whose prior beliefs were that public health programs were ineffective. These results suggest that information can make people more supportive of preparedness spending, which could provide electoral incentives for its provision. We conclude by providing some directions for future research to enhance our understanding of public opinion and preparedness spending.
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