Politics of COVID-19 vaccine mandates: Left/right-wing authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, and libertarianism

Peng, Yilang

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2022.111661

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“…A first set of reasons include differential conspiracy theory beliefs and anti-intellectualism among Republican voters 44 . Libertarianism was also found to predict lower support for vaccine mandates in the United States 45 . Another set of reasons relates to education and knowledge of Covid-19 as key factors shaping vaccine hesitancy 46 .…”

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Partisanship and Covid-19 vaccination in the UK

Klymak

Vlandas

2022

Sci Rep

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This article examines the association between partisanship and vaccination in the UK. The lower vaccination rates among Republicans in the US have been linked to ideology and President Trump’s anti-vaccination rhetoric. By contrast, both ruling and opposition parties in the UK promoted the national vaccination program. Using two datasets at constituency and individual levels, we analyse whether there are partisan differences in uptake when vaccination garners cross-party support. Our findings contrast in important ways from the US case. First, the correlation between partisanship and vaccination is the opposite to that of the US: both Conservative constituencies and individuals are associated with higher vaccination rates than Labour across almost all age groups. Thus, right-leaning individuals do not necessarily vaccinate less, at least when their political party is in power and supportive of vaccination. Second, partisanship alone accounts for a large share of variation in vaccination rates, but this association appears largely driven by socio-economic and demographic differences: older and economically better off individuals and constituencies tend to be more vaccinated. Once these controls are included, the correlation between Conservative partisanship and vaccination shrinks substantially. Hence, the ideological source of the partisan gap in vaccination rates appears smaller than in the US.

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Partisanship and Covid-19 vaccination in the UK

Klymak

Vlandas

2022

Sci Rep

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“…In particular, our extreme platform sample included several self-reported libertarians (n = 25/191 who reported their ideology, 13.1%, Table S2). Libertarianism correlates with authoritarianism and social dominance orientation, as well as lower agreeableness (Iyer et al, 2012;Peng, 2022aPeng, , 2022b. Libertarians also tend to have lower disgust sensitivity than conservatives and score higher on openness to experience (Iyer et al, 2012).…”

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Extreme right-wing ideology is associated with disgust towards human pathogen cues

Hoyle¹,

Raihani²

2022

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Ideological extremism combines strict adherence to a doctrine with intense outgroup hostility. One lens through which to investigate extremism is the behavioural immune system, a collection of psychological processes that putatively function to reduce infection risk. Disgust sensitivity (which is part of the behavioural immune system) has been associated with extreme right-wing attitudes, such as authoritarianism, support for group inequalities, and ethnocentrism. Nevertheless, it remains unclear whether right-wing extremism is specifically associated with disgust towards human pathogen cues. In addition, most work to date has relied on data from participants who are unlikely to hold ideologically extreme views. We investigated the relationship between disgust sensitivity and extremism by recruiting people who frequent extreme online spaces, where racist, neo-Nazi and white nationalist discussion is common, as well as people who frequent only mainstream platforms. Disgust towards human pathogen cues (blood, sores and sweat) was associated with extreme ideological attitudes while disgust towards nonhuman pathogen cues (dog faeces, cockroaches and mould) was not. These findings suggest that extreme - and specifically human-focused - disgust sensitivity is associated with ideological extremism and a self-reported willingness to engage in violence against others.

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“…The restrictions and vaccine mandates have been polarised since the beginning. Although public health professionals have shown scientific evidence to support the restrictions and vaccine mandates, the ideology of "Freedom" among the public and certain political leaders have made the public health recommendations not as straightforward as public health professionals would think [46][47][48][49][50]. Public health professionals tend to distance us from politics, but ordinary people are indeed inexplicitly or explicitly influenced by political ideologies.…”

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Topic Modelling and Sentiment Analysis of Tweets Related to Freedom Convoy 2022 in Canada

Huang

Tsao

Chen

et al. 2022

Int J Public Health

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Objectives: This study aimed to investigate public discourses and sentiments regarding the Freedom Convoy in Canada on Twitter.Methods: English tweets were retrieved from Twitter API from 15 January to 14 February 2022 when the Freedom Convoy occurred. Unsupervised topic modelling and sentiment analysis were applied to identify topics and sentiments for each topic.Results: Five topics resulted from the topic modelling, including convoy support, political arguments toward the current prime minister, lifting vaccine mandates, police activities, and convoy fundraising. Overall, sentiments for each topic began with more positive or negative sentiments but approached to neutral over time.Conclusion: The results show that sentiments towards the Freedom Convoy generally tended to be positive. Five topics were identified from the data collected, and these topics highly correlated with the events of the convoy. Our study also demonstrated that a mixed approach of unsupervised machine learning techniques and manual validation could generate timely evidence.

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Politics of COVID-19 vaccine mandates: Left/right-wing authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, and libertarianism

Cited by 35 publications

References 41 publications

Partisanship and Covid-19 vaccination in the UK

Partisanship and Covid-19 vaccination in the UK

Extreme right-wing ideology is associated with disgust towards human pathogen cues

Topic Modelling and Sentiment Analysis of Tweets Related to Freedom Convoy 2022 in Canada

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