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Replication Data for: "Enforcement may crowd out voluntary support for Covid19 policies, especially where trust in government is weak and in a liberal society"

Schmelz, Katrin
Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality" (Konstanz). Data File Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.7802/2124
Other Title (type): Includes a subset of the data set "COVID-19 and Social Inequality - April 2020" (Subtitle)
Abstract: How does enforcement affect citizens’ support for anti-Covid-19 policies? A survey conducted with 4,799 respondents towards the end of the first lockdown in Germany suggests that a substantial share of the population will support measures more under voluntary than under enforced implementation. Negative responses to enforcement – termed control aversion – vary across the nature of the policy intervention (e.g. they are rare for masks and frequent for vaccination and a cell phone tracing app) and are less common among those with greater trust in the government and the information it provides, a ... more
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License: CC BY-SA 4.0: Attribution – ShareAlike (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.de)
Subject area: [Economics]
Topics: social norm | institution | confidence | intrinsic motivation | inequality | solidarity | cooperation

Methodology

Date(s) of Data Collection: 2020-04-29; 2020-05-08
Geographic coverage: [Germany / DE]
Universe: Wohnbevölkerung über 18 Jahre
Sampling Procedure: Non-probability Sample - Quota Sample
Temporal Research Design: cross-section
Mode of Data Collection: Web-based interview
Notes: My data set is a subset of a large data set from the Covid-19 survey "Living in exceptional circumstances" of the Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality" at the University of Konstanz, containing not only my module on support for voluntary vs. enforced Covid-19 policies, but also modules from other researchers. The full data set titled " ... more

Bibliographic information

Primärforschende, Institution: Schmelz, Katrin; Universität Konstanz
Publication year: 2020
DOI: 10.7802/2124
Study number: SDN-10.7802-2124
Contributor, Institution, Role: [Thomas Wöhler; Universität Konstanz (Project Manager) [=] Konstantin Mozer; Universität Konstanz (Data Collector) [=] Marius Busemeyer; Universität Konstanz (Other) [=] Claudia Diehl; Universität Konstanz (Other) [=] Luna Bellani; Uni Konstanz (Other) [=] Sebastian Koos; Universität Konstanz (Other) [=] Peter Selb; Uni Konstanz (Other) [=] Thomas ... more
Project funder: Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG – German Research Foundation) under Germany‘s Excellence Strategy – EXC-2035/1 – 390681379
Publisher: Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality" (Konstanz)

Versions

Current Version: 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.7802/2124

Reference publications

Publications: Schmelz, K. (2021) Enforcement may crowd out voluntary support for Covid19 policies, especially where trust in government is weak and in a liberal society. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 118(1)

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Schmelz, Katrin (2020). Replication Data for: "Enforcement may crowd out voluntary support for Covid19 policies, especially where trust in government is weak and in a liberal society". Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality" (Konstanz). Data File Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.7802/2124.

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