How do Covid-19 Emergency Policies Relate to Political Trust? A Cross-Country Analysis

Titolo Rivista WELFARE E ERGONOMIA
Autori/Curatori Ilaria Di Tullio, Serena Tagliacozzo, Marco Cellini
Anno di pubblicazione 2022 Fascicolo 2022/1
Lingua Inglese Numero pagine 35 P. 105-139 Dimensione file 615 KB
DOI 10.3280/WE2022-001010
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The paper investigates the influence of the measures implemented by national governments to curb the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic on the citizens’ trust in government, within European countries. Data collected from the Eurofound’s Living, Working and Covid-19 survey and data from the Oxford Covid-19 Government response tracker database has been analysed through the employment of a multivariate OLS regression model. Overall, the analysis shows a negative relation between the emergency policies implemented by governments and political trust when considered at aggregated level. However, when considered at a disaggregated level, different kinds of emergency policies yield diverse relations with trust in government. The analysis points out how the policies concerning school and workplace closure, restrictions on gatherings and the economic measures concerning income support and debt contract relief has a negative relation with trust in government, while cancelling public events and restrictions on internal movement displays a positive relation.

la diffusione della pandemia di Covid-19 sulla fiducia dei cittadini nei confronti del governo, all’interno dei paesi europei. Ai fini dell’analisi sono stati utilizzati i dati dell’indagine "Living, Working and Covid-19" di Eurofound e della banca dati "Oxford Covid-19 Government Response Tracker database". Dati che sono stati analizzati attraverso l’utilizzo di un modello di regressione OLS multivaria-ta. Nel complesso, l’analisi mostra una relazione negativa tra le politiche di emergenza attuate dai governi e la fiducia politica. Diversi tipi di politiche di emergenza, se considerate a un livello disaggregato, generano fiducia nei con-fronti del governo. L’analisi evidenzia come le politiche riguardanti la chiusura di scuole e luoghi di lavoro, le restrizioni agli assembramenti e le misure econo-miche riguardanti il sostegno al reddito, solo per citarne alcune, abbiano una relazione negativa con la fiducia nel governo, mentre l’annullamento di eventi pubblici e le restrizioni ai movimenti interni mostrano una relazione positiva.

Keywords:Covid-19; fiducia nel Governo; fiducia nella politica; politiche di emergenza; politiche restrittive.

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Ilaria Di Tullio, Serena Tagliacozzo, Marco Cellini, How do Covid-19 Emergency Policies Relate to Political Trust? A Cross-Country Analysis in "WELFARE E ERGONOMIA" 1/2022, pp 105-139, DOI: 10.3280/WE2022-001010