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Contesting Covid: The ideological bases of partisan responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic
Author(s) -
ROVNY JAN,
BAKKER RYAN,
HOOGHE LIESBET,
JOLLY SETH,
MARKS GARY,
POLK JONATHAN,
STEENBERGEN MARCO,
VACHUDOVA MILADA ANNA
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
european journal of political research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.267
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1475-6765
pISSN - 0304-4130
DOI - 10.1111/1475-6765.12510
Subject(s) - ideology , covid-19 , opposition (politics) , normalization (sociology) , pandemic , political science , politics , political economy , enforcement , survey data collection , presidency , government (linguistics) , public administration , law , sociology , social science , virology , medicine , linguistics , statistics , philosophy , mathematics , disease , pathology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty)
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.