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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Acharya, Arnab
• Gerring, John
• Reeves, Aaron

Titel

Being close to an election does not make health more politically relevant: more experimental evidence during a global pandemic

Ist Teil von

• BMJ global health, 2021-01, Vol.6 (1), p.e004296

Ort / Verlag

England: BMJ Publishing Group Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• [...]the pandemic was still in its early stages when the surveys were conducted and citizens might not have fully appreciated its gravity, or its longevity. [...]the follow-up survey was launched in mid-October 2020, finishing just a few weeks before the November election. According to one estimate, approximately 50% of American deaths (roughly 125 000 deaths) would not have occurred if Trump had publicly acknowledged the severity of Covid-19 and followed expert advice on how to manage the shutdown of schools and businesses, social distancing, and the distribution of masks. [...]the other countries in our initial survey—with, arguably, somewhat less polarised political environments—also show null effects. [...]other experimental studies of partisan or incumbent support in the USA (focused on non health-related treatments) often report significant (positive or negative) treatment effects,6 7 suggesting that null results are not ubiquitous.