Contesting Covid: The ideological bases of partisan responses to the Covid-19 pandemic

Jan Rovny; Ryan Bakker; Liesbet Hooghe; Seth Jolly; Gary Marks; Jonathan Polk; Marco Steenbergen; Milada Anna Vachudova

doi:10.1111/1475-6765.12510

Contesting Covid: The ideological bases of partisan responses to the Covid-19 pandemic

Jan Rovny, Ryan Bakker, Liesbet Hooghe, Seth Jolly, Gary Marks, Jonathan Polk, Marco Steenbergen, Milada Anna Vachudova

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1155-1164
Number of pages	10
Journal	European Journal of Political Research
Volume	61
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12510
State	Published - Nov 2022

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Covid-19
expert surveys
ideology
political parties

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