COVID-19 BLOG
Public Opinion, Pandemic Infection and Policymaking: The COVID-19 Story of Liberty and Death
CRC member Nate Breznau takes a look at how media sentiment has influenced public behaviour over time and by how far there was a correlation with infection rates.
Read more // 18.06.2021
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Lockdown: When do people comply?
When governments decide which lockdown measures to take, they should keep general public preferences for government interventions in mind. If the lockdown turns out to be relatively too strict, compliance will drop, CRC member Nate Breznau and his colleagues Hung H.V. Nguyen and Lisa Heukamp write in their forthcoming paper in the Social Policy Review. In certain cases, giving people some slack will yield better results.
Read more // 28.05.2021
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Covid-19 Pandemic and Social Freedom
Frank Nullmeier reflects on the concept of freedom in times of a pandemic. He argues to reform public infection control and to then understand it as a social policy instrument that facilitates freedom in the first place.
Read more // 06.12.2020
Prof. Dr. Frank Nullmeier
