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Politics, pathogens and party lines

In: Nudged into Lockdown?

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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.

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  • ., 2022. "Politics, pathogens and party lines," Chapters, in: Nudged into Lockdown?, chapter 5, pages 121-161, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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    1. Torsten Müller & Thorsten Schulten, 2022. "Die europäische Mindestlohn-Richtlinie – Paradigmenwechsel hin zu einem Sozialen Europa," Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft - WuG, Kammer für Arbeiter und Angestellte für Wien, Abteilung Wirtschaftswissenschaft und Statistik, vol. 48(3), pages 335-364.

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