We look at sharing of misinformation around COVID in five countries. We find American Exceptionalism, but not in a good way.
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We use survey data from @VoxPopLabs from 5 countries (US, UK, Canada, Australia and NZ) at 2 points of the COVID pandemic: July '20 & January '21. We leverage the unique fact that the pandemic is global, and the misinformation around it has been similar all over the world.
A lot of attention (justifiably!) has been focused on the role of partisanship in COVID attitudes and behaviors. We expand the scope by looking at populism, which cuts across the party lines.
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We focus on two dimensions of populism: anti-elite dimension and distrust of experts dimension.
They are distributed fairly evenly among Reps and Dems. Republicans tend to score higher on the distrust of experts dimension of populism and Democrats on the anti-elite dimension.
Feb 4, 2020 • 31 tweets • 18 min read
I’m thrilled to announce that starting in the fall of 2020, I will be an assistant professor of political science at @ColoradoStateU .
This did not come easy, so you better believe that this will be accompanied by an emotional, and long, thread.
If books come with Acknowledgments, so will this job announcement. Here it goes:
