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How crises shape circles of solidarity : evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy
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Comparative political studies, 2024, Vol. 57, No. 2, pp. 356-381
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FERWERDA, Jeremy, MAGNI, Gabriele, HOOGHE, Elisabeth, MARKS, Gary, How crises shape circles of solidarity : evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy, Comparative political studies, 2024, Vol. 57, No. 2, pp. 356-381 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/75623
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How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected boundaries of solidarity? Human-induced crises that impose asymmetric costs tend to sharpen pre-existing divides, but natural disasters often strengthen solidarity. The pandemic possesses properties of both kinds of crisis. In a panel survey conducted in Northern Italy, the initial epicenter of the pandemic, we asked respondents to complete conjoint tasks querying who was likely to violate health guidelines (wave 1) and who should be prioritized for vaccine distribution (wave 2). We find that while discrimination towards the rich is nearly universal, bias against other outgroups depends on ideology and personal experience with the crisis. Leftwing individuals display discrimination towards partisan outgroups, while those on the right display ethnic bias. However, this effect is conditional: those who suffered a significant income loss but no health effects display heightened discrimination, while respondents who experienced COVID-19 as a personal health crisis are less likely to penalize outgroups.
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Published online: 26 May 2023