The Heterogeneous Effect of State Ideology on State Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic

• In Event: State Policy Diffusion and Feedback

Brief Overview

We illustrate the varying effect of ideology over time on state COVID-19 policy activity by estimating competing risks pooled event history models using data on state adoptions and subsequent changes to over two hundred COVID-19 policies.

Authors

• Frederick J. Boehmke, University of Iowa

• Taylor Tokos, University of Iowa

• Bruce A. Desmarais, Pennsylvania State University

• Jeff Harden, University of Notre Dame

• Johabed Olvera, Pennsylvania State University