Vaccine hesitancy and trust in government

A Cross-National Analysis

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6235033
AutoresDavid Denemark (0000-0002-3248-2927, Political Science and International Relations, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia, autor correspondente), Tauel Harper (0000-0002-7843-5544, Media and Communications, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia), Katie Attwell (0000-0002-0366-2160, Political Science and International Relations, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia)
Ano2022
Volume57
Fascículo2
Páginas145-163
Data de publicação2022-04-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAustralian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1036-1146 • E-ISSN: 1363-030X
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10361146.2022.2037511
OpenAlexW4220788387
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas28

This paper uses a 22-country cross-national analysis to test whether high levels of citizen trust in governmental civil servants prompt high levels of confidence in vaccine safety, effectiveness and importance. Because vaccine initiatives have long been the responsibility of national governments and the civil servants who coordinate their development, distribution and implementation, vaccine hesitancy or acceptance can be expected not just to reflect citizens' judgements of the efficacy of the vaccines themselves, but also of the governments who control almost every aspect of the vaccination programs. As existing global surveys on vaccine hesitancy do not include measures of attitudes toward governmental trust, we merge two pre-COVID-19 international datasets – one that measures citizen attitudes toward governmental civil servants and the other that measures citizens' views of vaccines – and find that citizen trust in their civil servants is a significant predictor of citizen confidence in vaccines' safety, effectiveness, and importance

Civil servants · Civil society · Government (linguistics · Merge (version control · Political science · Politics · Public relations · COVID-19 epidemiological studies · Law · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Public Administration · Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy