Seyd, Ben;
Bu, Feifei;
(2022)
Perceived risk crowds out trust? Trust and public compliance with coronavirus restrictions over the course of the pandemic.
European Political Science Review
pp. 1-16.
10.1017/s1755773922000078.
(In press).
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Abstract
Governments rely on citizen compliance for official rules to be effective. Yet achieving compliance is often tricky, particular when individual costs are high. Under what conditions will citizens voluntarily respect collective rules? We explore public compliance with SARS-CoV-2 (coronavirus) restrictions, focusing on the role of political trust. We anticipate that the effects of trust on compliance will be conditional on the presence of other factors, notably fear of infection. Low levels of fear may provide room for trust to shape compliance; yet high levels of fear may ‘crowd out’ the role of trust. We hypothesize that, at the pandemic’s outset, compliance was likely to be shaped more by fear than by trust. Yet as the pandemic progressed, the impact of fear on compliance was likely to have weakened, and the impact of trust to have strengthened. These hypotheses are tested using longitudinal data from Austria, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Perceived risk crowds out trust? Trust and public compliance with coronavirus restrictions over the course of the pandemic |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s1755773922000078 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755773922000078 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of European Consortium for Political Research. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Behavioural Science and Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10146209 |
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