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Jonathan Polk

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Contesting Covid: The ideological bases of partisan responses to the Covid-19 pandemic

Author

  • Jan Rovny
  • Ryan Bakker
  • Liesbet Hooghe
  • Seth Jolly
  • Gary Marks
  • Jonathan Polk
  • Marco Steenbergen
  • Milada Vachudova

Summary, in English

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 Covid- 19 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.

Department/s

  • Department of Political Science

Publishing year

2022

Language

English

Pages

1155-1164

Publication/Series

European Journal of Political Research

Volume

61

Issue

4

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Wiley

Topic

  • Political Science

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0304-4130