Polarization as Motivation? Electoral Prospects and Republicans' Openness to the COVID-19 Vaccine

• In Event: Public Health, Disability, and Political Psychology

Brief Overview

Can the desire to defeat the "other side" in elections motivate partisans toward other ends? Using original survey experiments, we find that priming COVID-19's effects on voter turnout increases Republicans' openness to coronavirus vaccination.

Authors

• John Victor Kane, New York University

• Ian G. Anson, University of Maryland-Baltimore County