Journal article
Pandemic and partisan polarisation: voter evaluation of UK government handling during Covid-19
- Abstract:
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What is the effect of pandemics on partisan perceptions of government competence? Taking the case of Covid-19 in the UK, we explore how voters’ assessments of the government’s handling of the economy and health were affected by four events: the first UK Covid-19 death; the national lockdown; Boris Johnson’s hospitalisation; and Cummings’ scandal. Using a large representative weekly survey in the last year totalling over around 30’000 respondents, our results show that Labour voters had the wo...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Wiley Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Swiss Political Science Review Journal website
- Volume:
- 27
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 325-338
- Publication date:
- 2021-05-06
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-02-25
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1424-7755
- ISSN:
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1662-6370
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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1170699
- Local pid:
- pubs:1170699
- Deposit date:
- 2021-04-06
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- Copyright holder:
- Vlandas and Klymak.
- Copyright date:
- 2021
- Rights statement:
- © 2021 The Authors. Swiss Political Science Review published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Swiss Political Science Association. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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