The Politics of Contagion
States, Societies, and the Control and Consequences of Infectious Diseases
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12463517 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Prerna Singh (0000-0001-9234-4190, Department of Political Science, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA; email: [email protected], corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 355-380 |
| Publication date | 2024-04-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Political Science (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1094-2939 • E-ISSN: 1545-1577 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev-polisci-051120-014707 |
| OpenAlex | W4394822834 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 169 |
The study of contagion offers important but underexplored opportunities to rethink and advance our understanding of key concepts in political science. These include notably state capacity; social policy; state–society relations, especially the role of trust; nationalism and social solidarity; exclusionary dynamics, such as xenophobia, prejudice, and discrimination; and within political psychology, the role of emotions, including disgust. This article reviews studies on contagion and health within and adjacent to political science. While taking note of the surge of studies around COVID-19, this article focuses on work on infectious disease before and beyond the pandemic. It analyzes the scholarship as it sheds light on the control of infectious diseases, on the one hand, and on the consequences of that control, on the other, while also pointing to connections and feedback loops, especially as they open avenues for future research
Criminology · Development economics · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Prejudice (legal term · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Solidarity · Xenophobia · Global Security and Public Health · Law · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social Psychology
Elevated ethnocentrism in the first trimester of pregnancy
Monetary incentives increase Covid-19 vaccinations
Judging nudging
Polarization and public health
Behavioural nudges increase Covid-19 vaccinations
Conservatives are more easily disgusted than liberals
The genetics of politics
Effective Messages in Vaccine Promotion
The behavioral immune system and social conservatism
The Emotional Path to Action
A social explanation for the rise and fall of global health issues
Disgust Sensitivity and the Neurophysiology of Left-Right Political Orientations
Changing Human Behavior to Prevent Disease
Trust and compliance to public health policies in times of Covid-19
Disgust
Parasite stress and pathogen avoidance relate to distinct dimensions of political ideology across 30 nations
Partisanship, health behavior, and policy attitudes in the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic
Tuskegee and the Health of Black Men
The behavioural immune system and the psychology of human sociality
Civic capital and social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic☆
Lessons from the History of Quarantine, from Plague to Influenza A
Disgust as an adaptive system for disease avoidance behaviour
The influence of political ideology and trust on willingness to vaccinate
Health Behavior in Developing Countries
Disease avoidance and ethnocentrism
Strategies for addressing vaccine hesitancy – A systematic review
Parasite-stress promotes in-group assortative sociality
The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development
The Foreignness of Germs
The Sociology of Global Health
Words matter
National Narcissism predicts the Belief in and the Dissemination of Conspiracy Theories During the Covid-19 Pandemic
On Disease and Deontology
Collective Narcissism, In-Group Satisfaction, and Solidarity in the Face of Covid-19
Understanding Global Health Governance
Using Frames to Make Scientific Communication More Effective
Framing, Motivated Reasoning, and Opinions About Emergent Technologies
The Role of Public Trust During Pandemics
National identification, a social cure for Covid-19? Evidence from 67 countries
The Anthropology of Infectious Disease
Racism and nationalism during and beyond the Covid-19 pandemic
Increased Self-Reported Mental Health Problems Among Asian-Americans During the Covid-19 Pandemic in the United States
The Effects of Race and Racial Concordance on Patient-Physician Communication
Political regime, data transparency, and Covid-19 death cases
Encouraging Covid-19 Vaccine Uptake Through Effective Health Communication
Love for the Motherland
Xenophobia in the time of pandemic
Citizens' Willingness to Support New Taxes for Covid‐19 Measures and the Role of Trust
Evolved Disease-Avoidance Mechanisms and Contemporary Xenophobic Attitudes
The paradox of trust
Nationalism and Covid in Belgium
Pandemic Politics in Eurasia
Keeping the vermin out
Nudge in perspective
Pandemics
Political competition and public healthcare
Political Context, Organizational Mission, and the Quality of Social Services
Global health in foreign policy--and foreign policy in health? Evidence from the BRICS
Trust in Local Government
How Exclusionary Nationalism Has Made the World Socially Sicker from Covid-19
The impact of post‐migration stressors on refugees’ emotional distress and health
Introduction
The Right to Health
Disease, Disaster, and Disengagement
Trust in physicians and trust in government predict Covid‐19 vaccine uptake
A crisis of trust
The Last Refuge of a Scoundrel? Patriotism and Tax Compliance
Quarantine, pilgrimage, and colonial trade
Using social and behavioural science to support Covid-19 pandemic response
How Right-Leaning Media Coverage of Covid-19 Facilitated the Spread of Misinformation in the Early Stages of the Pandemic in the U.S
Harnessing Shared Identities to Mobilize Resilient Responses to the Covid‐19 Pandemic
Nationalism and Ethnic-Based Trust
The Role of Executive Time Horizons in State Response to Aids in Africa
A Rare Moment of Cross-Partisan Consensus
The Effect of Fact‐Checking on Elites
Bricks and Mortar Clientelism
Patronage, Trust, and State Capacity
Disgust Sensitivity and Public Demand for Protection
Do Nonpartisan Programmatic Policies Have Partisan Electoral Effects? Evidence from Two Large-Scale Experiments
The Impact of Health Programs on Political Opinion
Ethnic Marginalization and (Non)Compliance in Public Health Emergencies
Infectious Disease, Disgust, and Imagining the Other
Can Political Trust Help to Explain Elite Policy Support and Public Behaviour in Times of Crisis? Evidence from the United Kingdom at the Height of the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic
Patriotism's Impact on Cooperation with the State
The Language of Pandemic Leaderships
United We Stand, Divided We Fall
War Against Covid‐19
The Behavioral Immune System Shapes Partisan Preferences in Modern Democracies
Evolutionary Political Psychology
How Disgust Influences Health Purity Attitudes
Does Partisanship Affect Compliance with Government Recommendations
The Influence of Private Health Care Financing on Citizen Trust in Government
Who Do You Trust? The Consequences of Partisanship and Trust for Public Responsiveness to Covid-19 Orders
Government Targeting of Refugees in the Midst of Epidemics
Pandemics and citizen perceptions about their country
Covid‐19, nationalism, and the politics of crisis
Institutions, Veto Points, and Policy Results
Democracy, Autocracy, and Emergency Threats
The Politics of Pandemic Othering
Building Credibility and Cooperation in Low-Trust Settings
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |