Existential insecurity and deference to authority: the pandemic as a natural experiment

IntroductionThe global coronavirus pandemic offers a quasi-experimental setting for understanding the impact of sudden exposure to heightened existential risk upon both individual and societal values.MethodsWe examined the effect of the pandemic on political attitudes by comparing data from eight co...

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Main Authors: Roberto Stefan Foa, Christian Welzel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Political Science
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpos.2023.1117550/full