The impact of economic inequality on conspiracy beliefs

BGS Casara, C Suitner, J Jetten - Journal of Experimental Social …, 2022 - Elsevier
Previous literature highlights the crucial role of economic inequality in triggering a range of
negative societal outcomes. However, the relationship between economic inequality and the …

Cooperation in the time of COVID

J Butterworth, D Smerdon… - Perspectives on …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Humans evolved to be hyper-cooperative, particularly when among people who are well
known to them, when relationships involve reciprocal helping opportunities, and when the …

The strategy of protest against Covid‐19 containment policies in Germany

T Plümper, E Neumayer, KG Pfaff - Social Science Quarterly, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives The article analyzes the epidemiological and political logics of protest against
containment policies in Germany. To maximize the mobilization potential, protest organizers …

Social representations of COVID-19 skeptics: Denigration, demonization, and disenfranchisement

R Jaspal, B Nerlich - Politics, Groups, and Identities, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Denialism accompanies many global threats, such as climate change, HIV/AIDS, and now
also SARS CoV-2 and COVID-19. We analyzed a corpus of 624 English-language news …

Protest against Covid-19 containment policies in European countries

E Neumayer, KG Pfaff… - Journal of Peace …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Protests against coronavirus policies have occurred in all European countries. The intensity
of protest varies strongly, however. We explain this variation by strategic choices that protest …

The state of human rights in a (post) COVID-19 world

G Chiozza, J King - Journal of Human Rights, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
As the pandemic spread globally, there was an explosion of scholarship written on the
effects the pandemic had in numerous fields. Human rights scholars were no exception to …

Do disasters trigger protests? A conceptual view of the connection between disasters, injustice, and protests—The case of COVID-19

S Vestergren, MS Uysal, S Tekin - Frontiers in Political Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
People around the globe are affected by disasters far beyond the disaster properties. Given
that certain social groups are affected disproportionately, disasters need to be considered as …

[PDF][PDF] Germany: The Alternative for Germany in the COVID-19 pandemic

M Lewandowsky, C Leonhardt… - Populists and the …, 2022 - library.oapen.org
Although the AfD rejected measures to counteract the pandemic and advocated a general
reopening, this position had become clearer over time. Figure 21.1 visualizes a quantitative …

Ideological extremism or far-right attitudes? The role of ideology for COVID-19 scepticism

A Küppers, M Reiser - Representation, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT COVID-19 sceptics view the virus as harmless (ie, not worse than a casual flu).
While political orientation appears to play a crucial role in developing these sceptical …

Politische Raumkultur als Verstärker der Corona-Pandemie? Einflussfaktoren auf die regionale Inzidenzentwicklung in Deutschland in der ersten und zweiten …

C Richter, M Wächter, J Reinecke… - ZRex–Zeitschrift für …, 2021 - elibrary.utb.de
In diesem Beitrag untersuchen wir, welchen spezifischen Einfluss Faktoren der politischen
Raumkultur auf die regionalen Unterschiede in den Corona Inzidenzverläufen in den beiden …