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AU - Lackner, Mario
AU - Sunde, Uwe
AU - Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf
AU - Institut für Höhere Studien (IHS), Wien
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Covid-19 and the Forces Behind Social Unrest
KW - Epidemie
KW - Folgen
KW - Protest
KW - Polarisierung
KW - USA
KW - economic shocks
KW - Covid-19
KW - civil unrest
KW - political polarization
KW - Gallup Covid-Survey 2020
KW - Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT)
PY - 2021
N2 - Veröffentlichungsversion
N2 - begutachtet
N2 - The unprecedented consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic have raised concerns about intensified social unrest, but evidence for such a link and the underlying channels is still lacking. We use a unique combination of nationally representative survey data, event data on social unrest, and data on Covid-19 fatalities and unemployment at a weekly resolution to investigate the forces behind social unrest in the context of the strains on public health and the economy due to the pandemic in the USA. The results show that pandemic-related unemployment and Covid-19 fatalities intensified negative emotional stress and led to a deterioration of economic confidence among individuals. The prevalence of negative emotional stress, particularly in economically strained and politically polarized environments, was, in turn, associated with intensified social unrest as measured by political protests. No such link is found for economic perceptions.
BT - IHS Working Paper ; Bd. 37
CY - Wien
UR - http://slubdd.de/katalog?TN_libero_mab2
ER -