Social acceptance of policy instrument design during times of crisis
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Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
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Title
Social acceptance of policy instrument design during times of crisis
Journal
European Policy Analysis
ISSN
2380-6567
2380-6567
2380-6567
Publication state
Published
Issued date
04/2023
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
9
Number
2
Pages
167-190
Language
english
Abstract
Disasters create challenges for governments as they need to design effective and legitimate policy instruments
to deal with the crisis. In this paper, we analyze social acceptance of regulations and financial investments in crisis governance, taking the example of the COVID‐19 pandemic. By using data from two survey experiments in Switzerland, we show that respondents support rules that temporarily centralize decisionmaking power to the national level but object to regulations that would make contact tracing efforts mandatory. The data shows also that citizens support financial investments of tax money to prevent future crises. Those who are afraid of the health consequences of the crisis are especially favorable to stricter regulations and financial investment, whereas economic worries related to the crisis specifically and political ideology in general barely explain variance in support for crisis responses. In general, this research contributes to our understanding of how survey experiments can be used to analyze social acceptance of policy instrument design.
to deal with the crisis. In this paper, we analyze social acceptance of regulations and financial investments in crisis governance, taking the example of the COVID‐19 pandemic. By using data from two survey experiments in Switzerland, we show that respondents support rules that temporarily centralize decisionmaking power to the national level but object to regulations that would make contact tracing efforts mandatory. The data shows also that citizens support financial investments of tax money to prevent future crises. Those who are afraid of the health consequences of the crisis are especially favorable to stricter regulations and financial investment, whereas economic worries related to the crisis specifically and political ideology in general barely explain variance in support for crisis responses. In general, this research contributes to our understanding of how survey experiments can be used to analyze social acceptance of policy instrument design.
Keywords
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Health Policy, Public Administration
Open Access
Yes
Funding(s)
Swiss National Science Foundation / 185963
Swiss National Science Foundation / 51NF40-182897
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