Public Support for Government and Leaders during the Covid-19 Crisis
A Comparative Study of East Asian Countries
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6430144 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jungsub Shin (0000-0001-8573-1168, Soongsil University), Brandon Beomseob Park (0000-0001-7656-3609, Chung-Ang University) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Public Opinion Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0954-2892 • E-ISSN: 1471-6909 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ijpor/edaf019 |
| OpenAlex | W4412011378 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 26 |
This paper investigates how COVID-19 anxiety and public evaluations of government crisis management relate to executive approval rates and trust in government in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Contrary to expectations from previous studies, we find no significant relationship between COVID-19 anxiety and changes in trust or executive approval. However, there is a consistent positive association between citizens’ evaluations of their government’s crisis management and increased levels of public support across all three countries. This study broadens the geographical scope of COVID-19-related research by exploring public attitudes in East Asia, contributing to the understanding of how government responses to crises relate to public trust and evaluations of political leaders
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · China · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Development economics · East Asia · Economic growth · Economics · Government (linguistics · Political science · Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2 · Disaster Management and Resilience · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Medicine · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Law · Virology
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Rallying around the flag in times of Covid-19
Trust and the Coronavirus Pandemic
Policy learning and crisis policy-making
Crisis signaling
How Right-Leaning Media Coverage of Covid-19 Facilitated the Spread of Misinformation in the Early Stages of the Pandemic in the U.S
A Rare Moment of Cross-Partisan Consensus
Political information and retrospective voting
Relative Economic Performance and the Incumbent Vote
The Origins and Consequences of Public Trust in Government
Who Gets the News? Alternative Measures of News Reception and Their Implications for Research
Political Expertise and Issue Voting in Presidential Elections
Cross-National Yardstick Comparisons
Political trust during the Covid‐19 pandemic
The effect of Covid‐19 lockdowns on political support
How the coronavirus crisis affects citizen trust in institutions and in unknown others
Holding governments accountable? Individual heterogeneity in performance voting
A Cross-National Analysis of Economic Voting
Learning about Voter Rationality
Political Sophistication and Economic Voting in the American Electorate
A Re-assessment of the Concept of Political Support
Benchmarking across Borders
A Developmental Model of Heterogeneous Economic Voting in New Democracies
Presidential Popularity from Truman to Johnson
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |