Date: 2022
Type: Article
Contesting Covid : the ideological bases of partisan responses to the Covid-19 pandemic
European journal of political research, 2022, Vol. 61, No. 4, pp. 1155-1164
ROVNY, Jan, BAKKER, Ryan, HOOGHE, Elisabeth, JOLLY, Seth, MARKS, Gary, POLK, Jonathan, STEENBERGEN, Marco, VACHUDOVA, Milada Anna, Contesting Covid : the ideological bases of partisan responses to the Covid-19 pandemic, European journal of political research, 2022, Vol. 61, No. 4, pp. 1155-1164
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How do political parties respond to external shocks? Using an original survey of political parties across Europe conducted in June 2020 and Chapel Hill Expert Survey (CHES) data on partisan ideological positioning, we argue that the pre-existing ideological stances of Europe’s political parties shaped their response to emerging Covid19 policy issues, including the tension between economic normalization and containment, legal versus voluntary enforcement and the role of science in policymaking. We find that party ideology powerfully predicts how parties, both in government and in opposition, responded to the pandemic.
Additional information:
First published: 31 January 2022
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/74311
Full-text via DOI: 10.1111/1475-6765.12510
ISSN: 0304-4130; 1475-6765
Publisher: Wiley
Version: Article also appear in The COVID-19 Issue First published: 20 September 2021, Last updated: 28 February 2022
