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The political cost of sanctions: Evidence from COVID-19
We use survey data to study how trust in government and consensus for the pandemic policy response vary with the propensity for altruistic punishment in Italy, the early epicenter of the pandemic. Approval for the management of the crisis decreases with the size of the penalties that individuals wou...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9232262/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35779982 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2022.06.008 |
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author | Fazio, Andrea Reggiani, Tommaso Sabatini, Fabio |
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description | We use survey data to study how trust in government and consensus for the pandemic policy response vary with the propensity for altruistic punishment in Italy, the early epicenter of the pandemic. Approval for the management of the crisis decreases with the size of the penalties that individuals would like to see enforced for lockdown violations. People supporting stronger punishment are more likely to consider the government’s reaction to the pandemic as insufficient. However, after the establishment of tougher sanctions for risky behaviors, we observe a sudden flip in support for the government. Higher amounts of the desired fines become associated with a higher probability of considering the COVID policy response as too extreme, lower trust in government, and lower confidence in the truthfulness of the officially provided information. These results suggest that lockdowns entail a political cost that helps explain why democracies may adopt epidemiologically suboptimal policies. |
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spelling | pubmed-92322622022-06-27 The political cost of sanctions: Evidence from COVID-19 Fazio, Andrea Reggiani, Tommaso Sabatini, Fabio Health Policy Perspective We use survey data to study how trust in government and consensus for the pandemic policy response vary with the propensity for altruistic punishment in Italy, the early epicenter of the pandemic. Approval for the management of the crisis decreases with the size of the penalties that individuals would like to see enforced for lockdown violations. People supporting stronger punishment are more likely to consider the government’s reaction to the pandemic as insufficient. However, after the establishment of tougher sanctions for risky behaviors, we observe a sudden flip in support for the government. Higher amounts of the desired fines become associated with a higher probability of considering the COVID policy response as too extreme, lower trust in government, and lower confidence in the truthfulness of the officially provided information. These results suggest that lockdowns entail a political cost that helps explain why democracies may adopt epidemiologically suboptimal policies. The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. 2022-09 2022-06-24 /pmc/articles/PMC9232262/ /pubmed/35779982 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2022.06.008 Text en © 2022 The Author(s) Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Perspective Fazio, Andrea Reggiani, Tommaso Sabatini, Fabio The political cost of sanctions: Evidence from COVID-19 |
title | The political cost of sanctions: Evidence from COVID-19 |
title_full | The political cost of sanctions: Evidence from COVID-19 |
title_fullStr | The political cost of sanctions: Evidence from COVID-19 |
title_full_unstemmed | The political cost of sanctions: Evidence from COVID-19 |
title_short | The political cost of sanctions: Evidence from COVID-19 |
title_sort | political cost of sanctions: evidence from covid-19 |
topic | Perspective |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9232262/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35779982 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2022.06.008 |
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