Partisanship, Elections and Lockdowns: Evidence from US States

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aut.relation.journalScottish Journal of Political Economy
dc.contributor.authorPacheco, G
dc.contributor.authorWesselbaum, D
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-24T01:40:34Z
dc.date.available2024-10-24T01:40:34Z
dc.date.issued2024-05-25
dc.description.abstractIn this article, we use state-level variation in Senate elections and partisanship to understand the variation in lockdown characteristics in the US. We argue that the state-level decision makers and their parties weigh off the perceived political costs in an election year of a depressed economy against risks to public health. Democrats and Republicans, and their voters, vary in the weights they attach to these costs and benefits. We are thus exploring the marginal effect of the party–election interaction after accounting for other likely drivers of variations in lockdown characteristics. We find that Republican states with an election have less strict and shorter lockdowns compared to Democratic states with an election. Our results have implications for the communication of pandemic policies, including vaccination strategies.
dc.identifier.citationScottish Journal of Political Economy, ISSN: 0036-9292 (Print); 1467-9485 (Online), Wiley. doi: 10.1111/sjpe.12392
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/sjpe.12392
dc.identifier.issn0036-9292
dc.identifier.issn1467-9485
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10292/18185
dc.languageen
dc.publisherWiley
dc.relation.urihttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sjpe.12392
dc.rights© 2024 The Author(s). Scottish Journal of Political Economy published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Scottish Economic Society. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccess
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject38 Economics
dc.subject3801 Applied Economics
dc.subject1401 Economic Theory
dc.subject1402 Applied Economics
dc.subject1606 Political Science
dc.subjectEconomics
dc.subject3502 Banking, finance and investment
dc.subject3801 Applied economics
dc.titlePartisanship, Elections and Lockdowns: Evidence from US States
dc.typeJournal Article
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