Logarithmic versus Linear Visualizations of COVID-19 Cases Do Not Affect Citizens’ Support for Confinement

Sevi, Semra; Aviña, Marco Mendoza; Péloquin-Skulski, Gabrielle; Heisbourg, Emmanuel; Vegas, Paola; Coulombe, Maxime; Arel‐Bundock, Vincent; Loewen, Peter John; Blais, André

doi:10.1017/s000842392000030x

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“…Finally, it is worth noting that Canada-wide support for workplace closure policies is almost uniformly high despite Canadians expecting the economy to stay closed until early August (Sevi et al, 2020). 6 This is quite an impressive achievement, for both the government and the public.…”

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Canadians Think that Nearly All of Us Will Be Allowed Back to Work around August

Briggs

2020

Can J Pol Sci

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Business closures and work-from-home orders have been a central part of Canada's plan to slow the spread of COVID-19. The success of these measures hinges on public support, which cannot be taken for granted as the orders induce considerable economic pain. As governments consider when to re-open the economy, one relevant variable is when the public expects the economy to re-open. At minimum, if public perceptions differ from government plans then additional government messaging is required to better align expectations.

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“…4 Each subgroup prediction is an average across 10,000 draws from the posterior predictive distribution. 5 See footnote 5 in Sevi et al (2020). 6 The rate of support is so uniformly high that it is not worth modeling.…”

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Canadians Think that Nearly All of Us Will Be Allowed Back to Work around August

Briggs

2020

Can J Pol Sci

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“…Canadians viewed measures like mask-wearing as a means to protect others, not just themselves (van der Linden and Savoie 2020). Canadians also appeared to have formed these policy preferences based on the perceived seriousness of the pandemic and trust in the ability of government to lead appropriately (Sevi et al 2020;Mohammed, Johnston, and van der Linden, 2020). As a result, policymaking has been more cooperative in the Canadian experience.…”

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COVID-19 Policy Response and the Rise of the Sub-National Governments

Adeel

Catalano

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Canadian Public Policy

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We examine the roles of subnational and national governments in Canada and the USA vis-à-vis protective public health response in the onset phase of the global COVID-19 pandemic. This period was characterized in both countries by incomplete and incorrect information as well as the uncertainty regarding which level of government should be responsible for which policies. The crisis represents an opportunity to study how national and subnational governments respond to such policy challenges. In this paper, we present a unique dataset which catalogues the policy responses of US states and Canadian provinces as well as those of the respective federal governments: the Protective Policy Index (PPI). We then compare the US and Canada along several dimensions including: the absolute values of subnational levels of the index relative to the total protections enjoyed by citizens, the relationship between "early threat" (as measured by the mortality rate near the start of the public health crisis) and the evolution of the PPI, and finally, the institutional/legislative origins of the protective health policies. We find that the subnational contribution to policy is more important for both the US and Canada as compared to their national-level policies, and is unrelated in scope to our "early threat" measure. We also show that the institutional origin of the policies as evidenced by COVID-19 response differs greatly between the two countries and has implications for the evolution of federalism in each.

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“…4 The Canadian case is particularly interesting given the remarkable resilience of the population in dealing with the pandemic. Previous research has shown that Canadians were overwhelmingly supportive of social distanciation measures during the lockdown (Sevi et al, 2020;Merkley et al, 2020;Pickup, Stecula, and van der Linden, 2020), despite the presence of a rather extensive set of restrictive policies in urban areas (Armstrong and Lucas, 2020). However, we still have limited information on the public's perceptions of containment measures such as cell phone contact tracing.…”

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Explaining Support for COVID-19 Cell Phone Contact Tracing

Rheault¹,

Musulan²

2020

Preprint

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COVID-19 contact tracing applications have been deployed at a fast pace around the world and may be a key policy instrument to contain future waves in Canada. This study aims to explain public opinion toward cell phone contact tracing using a survey experiment conducted with a representative sample of Canadian respondents. We build upon an established theory in evolutionary psychology—disease avoidance—to predict how media coverage of the pandemic affects public support for containment measures. We report three key findings. First, exposure to a news item that shows people ignoring social distancing rules causes an increase in support for cell phone contact tracing. Second, pre-treatment covariates such as anxiety and a belief that other people are not following the rules rank among the strongest predictors of support for COVID-19 apps. And third, while a majority of respondents approve the reliance on cell phone contact tracing, many of them hold ambivalent thoughts about the technology. Our analysis of answers to an open-ended question on the topic suggests that concerns for rights and freedoms remain a salient preoccupation.

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Logarithmic versus Linear Visualizations of COVID-19 Cases Do Not Affect Citizens’ Support for Confinement

Cited by 31 publications

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Canadians Think that Nearly All of Us Will Be Allowed Back to Work around August

Canadians Think that Nearly All of Us Will Be Allowed Back to Work around August

COVID-19 Policy Response and the Rise of the Sub-National Governments

Explaining Support for COVID-19 Cell Phone Contact Tracing

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