The Partisan Impact on Local Government Dissemination of COVID-19 Information: Assessing US County Government Websites
| Autor: | Isabelle Johansson, Kalie Sadowski, Joseph Blaszcynski, Michael A. Hansen, Sarah Meyer |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
020205 medical informatics Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Sociologi Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject 02 engineering and technology Public administration sites Web de comté Sociology 050602 political science & public administration 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering medicine local governments media_common Research Note/Note de recherche gouvernements locaux business.industry Public health 05 social sciences COVID-19 County government partisanerie Democracy Unit of analysis 0506 political science Access to information partisanship Local government county websites The Internet business |
| Zdroj: | Canadian Journal of Political Science. Revue Canadienne De Science Politique Canadian Journal of Political Science |
| ISSN: | 1744-9324 0008-4239 |
| Popis: | This study explores the relationship between local government dissemination of COVID-19 information and partisanship. The unit of analysis is all official county government websites in the United States. In particular, we investigate if there is a correlation between the overall partisanship of a county and whether a county government's website (1) mentions COVID-19 and (2) provides safety instructions concerning COVID-19. We hypothesize that mass partisanship will impact the probability that a county government's website provides information related to the coronavirus. We find that a larger share of Democratic voters in a county is associated with an increase in the probability that a county government's website mentions COVID-19 and provides safety instructions for its residents. The results hold even after controlling for population density, internet subscriptions and COVID-19 cases and deaths. The finding indicates that citizens’ access to information, even on matters of public health, are partially a consequence of partisanship. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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