What do the Danes think, know and mean about the Corona Epidemic?

An effective response to the Covid-19 pandemic requires governments and authorities to implement invasive changes to citizens’ everyday lives on short notice. For these changes to effectively curb contagion, citizens need to perceive them as legitimate.

We implement a panel survey of a representative sample of Danish citizens to examine if this is the case. The survey lets us answer questions such as: how do Danes evaluate government performance? To what extent to Danes conform with social distancing guidelines? And to whom do Danes attribute responsibility for the spread of the pandemic?

Thinking about corona. Photo: Colourbox

THE PROJECT IS CLOSED
Project period: 2020-2021
Principal investigators: Asmus Leth Olsen and Frederik Georg Hjorth

Central research questions / Focus areas

The project presents results from a nationally representative survey conducted in Denmark during the Coronavirus Pandemic. We introduce a novel measure, Willingness to Distance, capturing individual willingness to engage in social distancing, and show how individual characteristics predict Willingness to Distance.

Funded by:

The project was financed by the Faculty of Social Sciences emergency grants

Department of Political Science

What do the Danes think, know and mean about the Corona Epidemic?

Central research questions / Focus areas

Funded by: