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  • Harring, Niklas,1979Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Statsvetenskapliga institutionen,CeCAR - Centrum för studier av kollektivt handlande,Department of Political Science,CECAR - Centre for Collective Action Research (författare)

COVID-19: Large-scale collective action, government intervention, and the importance of trust

  • Artikel/kapitelEngelska2021

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  • Elsevier BV,2021

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  • LIBRIS-ID:oai:gup.ub.gu.se/300295
  • https://gup.ub.gu.se/publication/300295URI
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105236DOI

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  • In this article we apply a large-scale collective action framework on the spread of the COVID-19 virus. We compare the pandemic with other large-scale collective action problems – such as climate change, antimicrobial resistance and biodiversity loss – which are identified by the number of actors involved (the more actors, the larger the scale); the problem’s complexity; and the spatial and temporal distance between the actors causing and being affected by the problem. The greater the extent of these characteristics, the larger the scale of the collective action problem and the smaller the probability of spontaneous collective action. We argue that by unpacking the social dilemma logic underlying the spread of the COVID-19 virus, we can better understand the great variation in policy responses worldwide, e.g., why some countries are adopting harsher policies and enforcing them, while others tend to rely more on recommendations. We claim that one key factor is trust and, more precisely, reciprocal trust, both horizontally among people and also vertically between people and their governments – and vice versa. Citizens must trust that the recommendations they receive from the public authorities are correct, that these are in their (or the collective’s) best interest, and that most others will follow the recommendations. Simultaneously, government authorities must trust that their citizens will transform the recommendations into collective action. When this situation is present, we argue that governments enjoy a large degree of collective action capital, which potentially open up for a wider palette of policy options.

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  • Jagers, Sverker C.,1967Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,CeCAR - Centrum för studier av kollektivt handlande,Statsvetenskapliga institutionen,CECAR - Centre for Collective Action Research,Department of Political Science(Swepub:gu)xjagsv (författare)
  • Löfgren, Åsa,1972Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,CeCAR - Centrum för studier av kollektivt handlande,Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik,CECAR - Centre for Collective Action Research,Department of Economics(Swepub:gu)xlofas (författare)
  • Göteborgs universitetStatsvetenskapliga institutionen (creator_code:org_t)

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  • Ingår i:World Development: Elsevier BV138:February 20210305-750X1873-5991

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