TY - JOUR
T1 - Contesting Covid: The ideological bases of partisan responses to the Covid-19 pandemic
AU - Rovny, Jan
AU - Bakker, Ryan
AU - Hooghe, Liesbet
AU - Jolly, Seth
AU - Marks, Gary
AU - Polk, Jonathan
AU - Steenbergen, Marco
AU - Vachudova, Milada
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85124461704
U2 - 10.1111/1475-6765.12510
DO - 10.1111/1475-6765.12510
M3 - Article
SN - 0304-4130
VL - 61
SP - 1155
EP - 1164
JO - European Journal of Political Research
JF - European Journal of Political Research
IS - 4
ER -