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Who wants COVID-19 vaccination to be compulsory? The impact of party cues, left-right ideology, and populism
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Abstract Vaccine hesitancy is one of the major obstacles for successfully combating the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. To achieve a sufficiently high vaccination rate, calls for compulsory vaccinations have been discussed controversially. This study analyses what drives citizens’ attitudes towards compulsory vac... view more
Vaccine hesitancy is one of the major obstacles for successfully combating the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. To achieve a sufficiently high vaccination rate, calls for compulsory vaccinations have been discussed controversially. This study analyses what drives citizens’ attitudes towards compulsory vaccination during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, we are interested in the impact of party- and expert cues on public attitudes. We further expect populist attitudes to be an important indicator of the rejection of compulsory vaccination due to their scepticism towards science. To test these expectations, we rely on a cueing experiment conducted on a sample of 2265 German citizens. We test for the effects of in-party and out-party cues as well as public health expert cues. We find evidence for in-party cues, meaning that respondents adjust their position on this issue in the direction of their most preferred party. Similar results can be found for public health expert cues. However, there is no evidence for out-party cues. Further analyses reveal that support for compulsory vaccinations is not affected by left-right placement directly. Instead, only the combination of right-wing attitudes and populism negatively affects support for compulsory vaccination.... view less
Keywords
epidemic; vaccination; attitude; attitude formation; attitude research; party; expert; populism; political attitude; German; Federal Republic of Germany; regression analysis
Classification
Health Policy
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Free Keywords
compulsory vaccination; COVID-19 pandemic; cueing experiment; populist attitudes; SARS-CoV-2
Document language
English
Publication Year
2021
Page/Pages
p. 1-21
Journal
Politics (2021)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/02633957211061999
ISSN
1467-9256
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed