Ebola, elections, and immigration: how politicizing an epidemic can shape public attitudes

Adida, Claire L.; Dionne, Kim Yi; Platas, Melina R.

doi:10.1080/21565503.2018.1484376

Cited by 62 publications

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“…After being exposed to negative messages by an outgroup politician, Banks et al show, voters perceived ideological distance increases (contrast), driving responses to align further with their in-group beliefs. Similar dynamics have been found in previous studies with a focus on political behavior during a health crisis (Adida et al 2018).…”

Section: H2 Cognitive Dissonance and Calls For Greater Collaborationsupporting

confidence: 88%

Will I Get COVID-19? Partisanship, Social Media Frames, and Perceptions of Health Risk in Brazil

Calvo¹,

Ventura²

2020

Lat Am Polit Soc

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In these polarized and challenging times, not even perceptions of personal risk are immune to partisanship. This article introduces results from a new survey with an embedded social media experiment conducted during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil. Descriptive results show that progovernment and opposition partisans report very different expectations of health and job risks. Job and health policy have become wedge issues that elicit partisan responses. The analysis exploits random variation in the survey recruitment to show the effects of the president’s first speech on national television on the perceived risk and the moderating effect of partisanship. The article presents a framing experiment that models key cognitive mechanisms driving partisan differences in perceptions of health risks and job security during the COVID-19 crisis.

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Section: H2 Cognitive Dissonance and Calls For Greater Collaborationsupporting

confidence: 88%

Will I Get COVID-19? Partisanship, Social Media Frames, and Perceptions of Health Risk in Brazil

Calvo¹,

Ventura²

2020

Lat Am Polit Soc

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“…We conclude that President Bolsonaro's dismissive cues caused a divergence in diffusion trends between these two groups of municipalities. Our findings speak to a vast literature on the power of party and leader cues, particularly in contexts where citizens have little or no priors (Lupia, 1994;Adida et al, 2018). It also relates to the epidemiological models that predict that interventions are particularly consequential in the early days of epidemics (Vespignani et al, 2020) and to recent evidence on the framing effects of COVID-19-related information (Bursztyn et al, 2020;Fetzer et al, 2020).…”

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Words can hurt: how political communication can change the pace of an epidemic

Mariani¹,

Gagete-Miranda²,

Rettl³

2020

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Compliance with mandated health measures has substantial effects on public health, particularly during epidemics. We analyze how political leaders influence such compliance by exploiting President Bolsonaro’s display of skepticism towards COVID-19 during pro-government demonstrations in Brazil. We compare trends of the disease spread around the demonstrations’ date in municipalities with different levels of support for the President. After the demonstrations, the disease spread faster in pro-Bolsonaro municipalities. The results are driven not only by people’s agglomerating during the demonstrations but also by lower compliance with social distancing. Finally, we rule out that pre-existing differences in health-related behavior explain the results.

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“…These sequelae of events contrast with earlier time periods: Bethany Albertson and Shana Kushner Gadarian (2015) argued that public health threats did not generate a partisan response because smallpox and H1N1 were viewed as unframed threats (that is, partisans did not already view them differently). While there is some evidence that the public evaluates the management of previous infectious disease outbreaks in ways aligned with their allegiance to the political party in charge (Nyhan 2014), and that this can translate into partisan differences in vaccine uptake (Baum 2011) and in attitudes about immigration (Adida, Dionne, and Platas 2018), the context of coronavirus communication is distinct.…”

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The Emergence of COVID-19 in the US: A Public Health and Political Communication Crisis

Gollust

Nagler

Fowler

2020

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law

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The coronavirus public health crisis is also a political-communication and health-communication crisis. In this commentary, we describe the key communication-related phenomena and evidence of concerning effects manifested in the U.S. during the initial response to the pandemic. We outline the conditions of communication about coronavirus that contribute toward deleterious outcomes, including partisan cueing, conflicting science, downplayed threats, emotional arousal, fragmented media, and Trump’s messaging. We suggest these have contributed toward divergent responses by media sources, partisan leaders, and the public alike, leading to different attitudes and beliefs as well as varying protective actions taken by members of the public to reduce their risk. In turn, these divergent communication phenomena will likely amplify geographic variation in and inequities in COVID-19 disease outcomes. We conclude with some suggestions for future research, particularly surrounding communication about health inequity and strategies for reducing partisan divergence in views of public health issues in the future.

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Ebola, elections, and immigration: how politicizing an epidemic can shape public attitudes

Cited by 62 publications

References 26 publications

Will I Get COVID-19? Partisanship, Social Media Frames, and Perceptions of Health Risk in Brazil

Will I Get COVID-19? Partisanship, Social Media Frames, and Perceptions of Health Risk in Brazil

Words can hurt: how political communication can change the pace of an epidemic

The Emergence of COVID-19 in the US: A Public Health and Political Communication Crisis

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