As the number of COVID-19 cases rose in the US and around the world in early 2020,
conservative elites in the US racialized the pandemic, referring to the coronavirus as the …

As COVID-19 began to spread around the world, so did reports of discrimination and
violence against people from marginalized groups. We argue that in a global politics …

The coronavirus public health crisis is also a political-communication and health-
communication crisis. In this article, the authors describe the key communication-related …

This article critically studies coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic news in the press. The article
attempts to study the way the news of COVID-19 is used for political and ideological …

Research has demonstrated that situational factors such as perceived threats to the social
order activate latent authoritarianism. The deadly COVID-19 pandemic presents a rare …

The electoral success of nativist parties in several Western democracies in the last decade
surprised many political operators and academics alike, in part due to an insufficient …

The public health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with the subsequent
economic emergency and social turmoil, has pushed governments to substantially and …

Citizens' compliance with health measures and policies can have an important effect on the
state of public health. This is the case of mass immunization through vaccines, for example …

We study how fear can affect the behavior of voters and politicians by looking at the Ebola
scare that hit the US a month before the 2014 midterm elections. Exploiting the timing and …

As evidence mounts regarding Americans' politically polarized responses to COVID-19,
researchers need a comprehensive explanatory model to account for how and why political …