Rally Effect in the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Role of Affectedness, Fear, and Partisanship

Autor: Melanie Dietz, Sigrid Roßteutscher, Philipp Scherer, Lars-Christopher Stövsand
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
Allgemeines
spezielle Theorien und Schulen
Methoden
Entwicklung und Geschichte der Politikwissenschaft
Sociology and Political Science
Politikwissenschaft
Angst
politische Führung
Federal Republic of Germany
Epidemie
partiality
political leadership
epidemic
Mikrozensus
microcensus
Political Process
Elections
Political Sociology
Political Culture
Political science
politische Willensbildung
politische Soziologie
politische Kultur
crisis behavior
anxiety
affectedness
Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Parteilichkeit
Krisenverhalten
Political Science and International Relations
ddc:320
COVID-19
Coronavirus
Rally Effect
GLES Tracking Januar 2020
T45 (ZA6839 v1.1.0)
GLES Tracking Mai 2020
T46 (ZA6849 v2.0.0)
GLES Tracking September 2019
T44 (ZA6837 v1.0.0)
GLES Tracking September 2020
Wiederholungsbefragte T46W (ZA6842 v1.0.0)
GLES Tracking September 2020
T47 (ZA6841 v1.0.0)
Langfrist-Online-Tracking
T43 (GLES) (ZA6833 v1.1.0)
Mikrozensus 2017
Basic Research
General Concepts and History of Political Science
Betroffenheit
Zdroj: German Politics
Popis: When the Covid-19 pandemic hit internationally in March 2020, governments and political incumbents received exceptionally high approval ratings. Such a sudden spike of public support in times of crisis is often explained as the ‘rally ‘round the flag’ effect. This paper has three goals: first, to examine whether a rally effect indeed occurred; second, to analyse whether and how much it is related to (i) affectedness, i.e. the occurrence of infections on individual and aggregate level, and (ii) fear of Covid-19; and third, to examine an assumed moderating effect of partisanship. We merged individual survey data from an online survey conducted in September 2020 as part of the German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES) with infection rates on the state level (Bundesländer) published by the Robert Koch Institute. We detect a striking rally effect in all partisan camps. Furthermore, we identify fear of Covid-19 as the driving mechanism while there is no evidence that affectedness is a major force behind the rally effect. Furthermore, we show that partisanship takes on a moderating role for fear of Covid-19 regarding satisfaction with government.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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