Politics, pathogens and party lines

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Chapter 5 in Nudged into Lockdown?, 2022, pp 121-161 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: During the Covid-19 pandemic, a popular narrative took hold that conservatives were anti-lockdown while liberals were in favor. In this chapter, I show that this unidimensional view of politics is incomplete, if not inaccurate. Both conservatives and liberals come in two flavors: social conservatives and social liberals as well as economic conservatives and economic liberals; these groups differ in their policy stances. When it came to support for lockdowns there was a concordance in the views of social conservatives and economic liberals but for very different reasons. I also explore evolutionary reasons behind why these political ideologies came to exist and explore their potential policy implications during the pandemic.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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