Enduring Effects of COVID-19: A Global Perspective (Virtual Session)

Session Submission Type: Virtual Full Paper Panel

Session Description

This panel addresses the short- and long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic across several countries and regions, including Latin America, Southeast Asia, Russia, Turkey, and the United States. It includes five papers that investigate health behavior compliance, vaccine hesitancy and perceptions of vaccine safety, and the impact of vaccine distribution based on original survey data.

Vaccine Diplomacy: How COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution in Latin America Increases Trust in Foreign Governments by Julian Gerez (PhD candidate, Columbia University)

Can Endorsement by Politicians and Religious Leaders move the Needle on Vaccine Hesitancy? by Pauline Jones (Professor, University of Michigan)

Partisanship, Trumpism, and Health Behavior in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Panel Data by Thomas B. Pepinsky (Professor, Cornell University)

Non-Compliance as Dissent: Societal Roots of Compliance with State Regulation by Regina Smyth (Professor, Indiana University)

Sub Unit

• Theme Panel

Cosponsor

• Division 11: Comparative Politics

Individual Presentations

• COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution in Latin America & Trust in Foreign Governments - Julian Gerez, Columbia University; Sarah Zukerman Daly, Columbia University; John Marshall, Columbia University; Elena Barham, Columbia University; Oscar Pocasangre, Columbia University

• Can Endorsement Move the Needle on Vaccine Hesitancy? - Pauline Jones, University of Michigan; Anil Menon, University of Michigan; Allen D. Hicken, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

• Partisanship, Trumpism, and Health Behavior in the COVID-19 Pandemic - Thomas Pepinsky, Cornell University; Shana Kushner Gadarian, Syracuse University; Sara Wallace Goodman, University of California, Irvine

• Non-Compliance as Dissent: Societal Roots of Compliance with State Regulation - Regina A. Smyth, Indiana University

Chair

• Scott L. Greer University of Michigan

Discussant

• Ellen M. Lust University of Gothenburg