Politicization and polarization in COVID-19 news coverage

PS Hart, S Chinn, S Soroka - Science communication, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
This study examines the level of politicization and polarization in COVID-19 news in US
newspapers and televised network news from March to May 2020. Using multiple computer …

Racial disparity in COVID-19 deaths: Seeking economic roots with census data

J McLaren - The BE Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2021 - degruyter.com
This note seeks the socio-economic roots of racial disparities in COVID-19 mortality, using
monthly county-level mortality, economic, and demographic data from 3140 counties …

The American racial divide in fear of the police

JT Pickett, A Graham, FT Cullen - Criminology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The mission of policing is “to protect and serve,” but recent events suggest that many
Americans, and especially Black Americans, do not feel protected from the police …

Identity leadership in a crisis: A 5R framework for learning from responses to COVID‐19

SA Haslam, NK Steffens, SD Reicher… - Social Issues and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The COVID‐19 pandemic is the greatest global crisis of our lifetimes, and leadership has
been critical to societies' capacity to deal with it. Here effective leadership has brought …

Elite cues and the rapid decline in trust in science agencies on COVID-19

LC Hamilton, TG Safford - Sociological Perspectives, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has been marked by political divisions in US public trust of
scientists. Such divisions are well known on other topics, but regarding COVID-19 they …

What does the public want police to do during pandemics? A national experiment

J Nix, S Ivanov, JT Pickett - Criminology & public policy, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Research Summary We administered a survey experiment to a national sample of 1068 US
adults in April 2020 to determine the factors that shape support for various policing tactics in …

Polarization of beliefs as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of Spain

J Bernacer, J García-Manglano, E Camina, F Güell - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Spain was, together with Italy, the first European country severely affected by the COVID-19
pandemic. After one month of strict lockdown and eight weeks of partial restrictions, Spanish …

Social order and social justice: Moral intuitions, systemic racism beliefs, and Americans' divergent attitudes toward Black Lives Matter and police

E Silver, K Goff, J Iceland - Criminology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We examine the influence of moral intuitions on Americans' divergent attitudes toward Black
Lives Matter (BLM) and police. Drawing on Moral Foundations Theory, we hypothesize that …

Determinants of COVID-19 skepticism and SARS-CoV-2 vaccine hesitancy: findings from a national population survey of US adults

J Levin, M Bradshaw - BMC Public Health, 2022 - Springer
Background The enduring presence of COVID-19 skepticism and SARS-CoV-2 vaccine
hesitancy is an ongoing impediment to the global response effort to the current pandemic …

A global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic

N Legate, T Ngyuen, N Weinstein… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Finding communication strategies that effectively motivate social distancing continues to be
a global public health priority during the COVID-19 pandemic. This cross-country …