How Crises Shape Circles of Solidarity
Evidence From the Covid-19 Pandemic in Italy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6244322 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeremy Ferwerda (0000-0002-5066-4935, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA, corresponding author), Gabriele Magni (0000-0003-0324-8303, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, USA), Liesbet Hooghe (0000-0002-6644-8882, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA), Gary Marks (0000-0003-1331-0975, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 356-381 |
| Publication date | 2024-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Political Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4140 • E-ISSN: 1552-3829 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00104140231169028 |
| OpenAlex | W4378532719 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 61 |
How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected boundaries of solidarity? Human-induced crises that impose asymmetric costs tend to sharpen pre-existing divides, but natural disasters often strengthen solidarity. The pandemic possesses properties of both kinds of crisis. In a panel survey conducted in Northern Italy, the initial epicenter of the pandemic, we asked respondents to complete conjoint tasks querying who was likely to violate health guidelines (wave 1) and who should be prioritized for vaccine distribution (wave 2). We find that while discrimination towards the rich is nearly universal, bias against other outgroups depends on ideology and personal experience with the crisis. Leftwing individuals display discrimination towards partisan outgroups, while those on the right display ethnic bias. However, this effect is conditional: those who suffered a significant income loss but no health effects display heightened discrimination, while respondents who experienced COVID-19 as a personal health crisis are less likely to penalize outgroups
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Demographic economics · Economics · Ethnic group · Ideology · Ingroups and outgroups · Pandemic · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Solidarity · Law · Medicine · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
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Personality and Prejudice
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Cultural Backlash
Unraveling Working-class Welfare Chauvinism
The importance of citizenship for deserving Covid-19 treatment
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Ebola, elections, and immigration
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Evolved Disease-Avoidance Mechanisms and Contemporary Xenophobic Attitudes
Xenophobia and anti-immigrant attitudes in the time of Covid-19
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The Rise of the Super-Rich
Policy Uptake as Political Behavior
Predisposing Factors and Situational Triggers
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
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| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |