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Vaccine Hesitancy and Political Populism: An Invariant Cross-European Perspective
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Abstract Vaccine-hesitancy and political populism are positively associated across Europe: those countries in which their citizens present higher populist attitudes are those that also have higher vaccine-hesitancy rates. The same key driver fuels them: distrust in institutions, elites, and experts. The relu... view more
Vaccine-hesitancy and political populism are positively associated across Europe: those countries in which their citizens present higher populist attitudes are those that also have higher vaccine-hesitancy rates. The same key driver fuels them: distrust in institutions, elites, and experts. The reluctance of citizens to be vaccinated fits perfectly in populist political agendas because is a source of instability that has a distinctive characteristic known as the "small pockets" issue. It means that the level at which immunization coverage needs to be maintained to be effective is so high that a small number of vaccine-hesitants have enormous adverse effects on herd immunity and epidemic spread. In pandemic and post-pandemic scenarios, vaccine-hesitancy could be used by populists as one of the most effective tools for generating distrust. This research presents an invariant measurement model applied to 27 EU + UK countries (27,524 participants) that segments the different behaviours found, and gives social-marketing recommendations for coping with the vaccine-hesitancy problem when used for generating distrust.... view less
Keywords
populism; vaccination; political agenda; epidemic; marketing; Eurobarometer; confidence
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Free Keywords
COVID-19; Coronavirus; vaccine hesitancy; alignment; invariance; social marketing; Eurobarometer 91.2 (2019) (ZA7562 v1.0.0)
Document language
English
Publication Year
2021
Page/Pages
p. 1-20
Journal
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18 (2021) 24
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182412953
ISSN
1660-4601
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed