Item-level declines in trust under lockdown stringency are driven by local government and parliament, with no significant relationship for trust in political parties¶
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q2 i? Stringency-related declines in trust were mainly driven by local government and parliament/congress items; the political parties item showed no significant relationship. → Kennedy 2026
Evidence¶
Kennedy 2026¶
Kennedy, A. I., Mejía-Rodríguez, A. M., Strietholt, R. (2026). Civic Education Outcomes After Emergency Lockdowns: International Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic. Preprint submitted to Learning and Instruction. https://github.com/OxCGRT/covid-policy-dataset
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Linear probability models predicting positive responses on individual ICCS trust items using the same covariates as the main model. The article reports stringency-related trust declines were "mainly driven by declines in trust of the local government and parliament/congress".
"this appears mainly driven by declines in trust of the local government and parliament/congress. The only item where there was not significant relationship was with the one asking about trust of political parties."
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- Lockdown stringency and school closure duration are associated with greater declines in student trust in civic institutions — related
- Robustness of the lockdown-civic outcome associations varies by outcome, with legal protest and trust/closure results most consistent — related
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Item-level declines in trust under lockdown stringency are driven by local government and parliament, with no significant relationship for trust in political parties |
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Item-level declines in trust under lockdown stringency are driven by local government and parliament, with no significant relationship for trust in political parties |
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2026 |
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by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-23 |
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