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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL RESEARCH
卷 60, 期 4, 页码 1007-1017出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/1475-6765.12425
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COVID-19; political trust; rally effect
During the Covid-19 pandemic, collective angst and the severity of the virus rallied people around political institutions rather than lockdown measures. As the Covid-19 infections spread, traditional determinants of political trust lost their explanatory power, indicating an emotionally driven rally effect during the crisis.
How can we explain the rise in diffuse political support during the Covid-19 pandemic? Recent research has argued that the lockdown measures generated political support. In contrast, I argue that the intensity of the pandemic rallied people around political institutions. Collective angst in the face of exponentially rising Covid-19 cases depresses the usual cognitive evaluations of institutions and leads citizens to rally around existing intuitions as a lifebuoy. Using a representative Dutch household survey conducted over March 2020, I compare the lockdown effect to the dynamic of the pandemic. I find that the lockdown effect is driven by pre-existing time trends. Accounting for non-linearities in time makes the lockdown effect disappear. In contrast, more flexible modelling techniques reveal a robust effect of Covid-19 infections on political trust. In line with an anxiety effect, I find that standard determinants of political trust - such as economic evaluations and social trust - lose explanatory power as the pandemic spreads. This speaks to an emotionally driven rally effect that pushes cognitive evaluations to the background.
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