The political component of COVID-19 vaccine choice: Results from a conjoint experiment

Zs, Papp; G.B, Nkansah

doi:10.1016/j.puhe.2023.01.014

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“…Current studies on the influence of international collaboration on COVID-19 vaccination intentions are not conclusive. Although many studies suggest citizens prefer domestically developed vaccines (Kreps and Kriner, 2021;Motta, 2021;Barceló et al, 2022;Papp and Nkansah, 2023), there are favourable foreign vaccines. Wong et al (2021) find that about 75% of survey respondents in the USA would only take a COVID-19 vaccine that is produced by certain countries.…”

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“…Recent studies have examined public attitudes towards international vaccines and in general the results show that citizens tend to favour vaccines developed and produced in their own country (Kreps and Kriner, 2021;Motta, 2021;Barceló et al, 2022;Papp and Nkansah, 2023). National pride and trust in domestic institutions play a role in explaining vaccine nationalism, but other reasons include perceived quality of vaccines coming from countries such as China and Russia as well as trust in international institutions such as the World Health Organization (WHO) (Chiang et al, 2022;Sheen et al, 2023).…”

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The politics of flu vaccines: international collaboration and political partisanship

Liu,

Nagao,

Hatungimana

et al. 2024

Japanese Journal of Political Science

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While vaccine hesitancy has become a salient issue, few studies have examined the influence of international collaboration and vaccine developments on people's attitudes towards vaccines. The international collaboration especially with China has been an integral part of the field of influenza. In recent years, attitudes towards vaccines and China are both heavily politicized in the USA with a deepening partisan divide. Republicans are more likely than Democrats to be vaccine hesitant, and they are also more likely to view China negatively. At the same time, the USA has economic, security, and medical collaboration with Japan and most Americans display a very positive view of the country. Thus, does a more international collaboration or more country-specific vaccine development have an influence on US vaccine hesitancy? This study conducts a survey-embedded question-wording experiment to assess the roles of US–China and US–Japan collaboration and partisanship in people's willingness to get the flu vaccine. Despite the previously successful and effective US–China collaboration, this study finds that respondents especially Republicans are much less likely to receive a US–China flu vaccine than a US–Japan or USA alone. Interestingly, both Democrats and Republicans are as willing to receive a US–Japan vaccine as USA alone. These results point to critical roles of partisanship and international relations.

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The politics of flu vaccines: international collaboration and political partisanship

Liu,

Nagao,

Hatungimana

et al. 2024

Japanese Journal of Political Science

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The geopolitics of vaccine media representation in Orbán’s Hungary—an AI-supported sentiment analysis

Sebők,

Ring,

Kis

et al. 2024

J Comput Soc Sc

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Extant studies on the European media coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic generally posit a linear relationship between the severity of the public health emergency and the volume of media reports. However, domestic politics and geopolitics may also impact the saliency, distribution, and sentiment of coverage in different outlets. Under Viktor Orbán’s illiberal leadership, Hungary sought deals for ventilators and vaccines from China and Russia—a deviation from joint European procurements. In this article, we conduct a content analysis of pro-government and Orbán-critical media to examine differences in their treatment of Eastern and Western vaccines. We relied on state-of-the-art deep learning analysis (a branch of articifial intelligence) to investigate all COVID-19-related articles (N = 72,339) published on three major Hungarian news portals between March 2020 and March 2022. We used a new fine-tuned BERT model for emotion analysis, the categories of which have been aggregated into three sentiment labels (positive, negative, and neutral). Our sentiment analysis results show a positive correlation between the number of sentences mentioning at least one of the vaccines and the (first) shots administered for only one outlet out of three. The pro-government portal in the sample showed more positivity towards Western vaccines than a hard-right, anti-government one. This latter also produced more positive reports concerning the Russian vaccine. These results shed light on the complex geopolitics of vaccine narratives in Hungarian media. Our research contributes not only to our understanding of illiberal media systems but also by sharing a new public dataset and a fine-tuned large language model that is applicable to alternative research questions and designs.

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Controversies of COVID-19 vaccine promotion: lessons of three randomised survey experiments from Hungary

Szászi,

Bíró-Nagy

2024

Public Health

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The political component of COVID-19 vaccine choice: Results from a conjoint experiment

Cited by 4 publications

References 40 publications

The politics of flu vaccines: international collaboration and political partisanship

The politics of flu vaccines: international collaboration and political partisanship

The geopolitics of vaccine media representation in Orbán’s Hungary—an AI-supported sentiment analysis

Controversies of COVID-19 vaccine promotion: lessons of three randomised survey experiments from Hungary

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