Article ; Online: Resistance to COVID-19 vaccination and the social contract: evidence from Italy.
NPJ vaccines
2023 Volume 8, Issue 1, Page(s) 60
Abstract: Confronted with stalled vaccination efforts against COVID-19, many governments embraced mandates and other measures to incentivize vaccination that excluded the unvaccinated from aspects of social and economic life. Even still, many citizens remained ... ...
Abstract | Confronted with stalled vaccination efforts against COVID-19, many governments embraced mandates and other measures to incentivize vaccination that excluded the unvaccinated from aspects of social and economic life. Even still, many citizens remained unvaccinated. We advance a social contract framework for understanding who remains unvaccinated and why. We leverage both observational and individual-level survey evidence from Italy to study the relationship between vaccination status and social context, social trust, political partisanship, and adherence to core institutional structures such as the rule of law and collective commitments. We find that attitudes toward the rule of law and collective commitments outside the domain of vaccination are strongly associated with compliance with vaccine mandates and incentives. Partisanship also corresponds with vaccine behaviors, as supporters of parties whose leaders criticized aggressive policies to incentivize or mandate vaccination and emphasized individual liberty are least likely to comply. Our findings suggest appeals emphasizing individual benefits may be more effective than appeals emphasizing collective responsibility. |
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Language | English |
Publishing date | 2023-04-22 |
Publishing country | England |
Document type | Journal Article |
ISSN | 2059-0105 |
ISSN (online) | 2059-0105 |
DOI | 10.1038/s41541-023-00660-8 |
Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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