COVID-19 and the Culture of American Federalism
| Autor: | Emily Pears, Emily Sydnor |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol 8, Iss 8, Pp 181-220 (2022) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2377-8253 2377-8261 |
| DOI: | 10.7758/RSF.2022.8.8.09 |
| Popis: | COVID-19 highlighted America’s federalist structure as the dissemination of pandemic information was frequently left to states and localities. For some citizens, this was a welcome relief from national-level policymaking and political narratives, though others argued that the federal government was failing to live up to its obligations. We identify three reasons for variation in Americans’ trust in information from different levels of government: partisanship, ideology, and state identity. Using data from a representative online survey of more than one thousand people, we demonstrate that each individual characteristic shaped respondents’ trust in leaders to provide pandemic information. Partisanship and ideology played major roles in information trust at both the national and state level, but individuals’ psychological attachment to their state and to the nation also shaped their trust in the federated information environment. |
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