The political cost of sanctions: evidence from COVID-19
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14560%2F22%3A00126118" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14560/22:00126118 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2022.06.008" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2022.06.008</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2022.06.008" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.healthpol.2022.06.008</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The political cost of sanctions: evidence from COVID-19
Original language description
We use survey data to study how trust in government and consensus for the pandemic policy response vary with the propensity for altruistic punishment in Italy, the early epicenter of the pandemic. Approval for the government’s management of the crisis decreases with the size of the penalties that individuals would like to see enforced for lockdown violations. People supporting stronger punishment are more likely to consider the government’s reaction to the pandemic as insufficient. However, after the establishment of tougher sanctions for risky behaviors, we observe a sudden flip in support for the government. Higher amounts of the desired fines become associated with a higher probability of considering the government’s policy response as too extreme, lower trust in government, and lower confidence in the truthfulness of the officially provided information. These results suggest that lockdowns entail a political cost that helps explain why democracies may adopt epidemiologically suboptimal policies.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
HEALTH POLICY
ISSN
0168-8510
e-ISSN
1872-6054
Volume of the periodical
126
Issue of the periodical within the volume
9
Country of publishing house
IE - IRELAND
Number of pages
7
Pages from-to
872-878
UT code for WoS article
000903710700006
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85133315435