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Perception and Behavior Adaptation in Times of Corona and Populism: A Longitudinal Study.

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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19

  • start year

    2020

  • Funder

    Volkswagen Stiftung

  • Principal Investigator

    Prof Dr and Dr and Prof Dr Thorsten Faas, Nico Siegel, Gert G Wagner

  • Research Location

    Germany

  • Lead Research Institution

    Freie Universität Berlin

  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A

  • Research Category

    Policies for public health, disease control & community resilience

  • Research Subcategory

    Approaches to public health interventions

  • Special Interest Tags

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Non-Clinical

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Not Applicable

  • Vulnerable Population

    Not applicable

  • Occupations of Interest

    Not applicable

Abstract

The current corona pandemic represents a huge exogenous shock, challenging the resilience and coping mechanisms of society, the political system, but also each individual citizen. The project makes use of the quasi-experimental setting that the pandemic provides to study preconditions of successful political responses and reforms in times of increasing polarization and populism. It relies on panel data starting before the exponential growth of the pandemic in Germany took off and before the first drastic measures to contain the spread of Covid-19 were implemented. Result will be disseminated to academic as well as broader audiences.