Dept Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
PLoS One. 2023 Feb 3;18(2):e0266531. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0266531. eCollection 2023.
The COVID-19 pandemic brought sudden economic devastation and forced countries to respond with policies to counter the looming economic crisis. What policy response do citizens prefer to combat an economic decline due to a pandemic? We study the preferences of citizens regarding economic policy and changes in these preferences as the pandemic unfolded in Denmark. Denmark passed early and comprehensive legislation with broad support from all political parties to counter the economic crisis caused by the pandemic. We employ a large nationally representative two-wave panel of Danish citizens (N = 12,131) drawn from the administrative registers, from which data was collected at the onset of the economic shock and immediately prior to economic recovery. In both waves the same subjects describe their preferred economic solution to COVID-19 in open-text format. We generate a simple dictionary method to uncover a set of distinct laymen economic policy responses. First, we find that citizens formulated a diverse set of policy interventions. Second, citizens become markedly stronger proponents of economic intervention as the crisis unfolded. Finally, we show how differences in economic preferences across partisanship vanished during the crisis.
新冠疫情带来了突然的经济破坏，迫使各国出台政策应对迫在眉睫的经济危机。面对疫情导致的经济衰退，公民更倾向于采取哪种经济政策应对？我们研究了丹麦公民对经济政策的偏好，以及随着疫情的发展这些偏好的变化。丹麦很早就通过了全面立法，所有政党都广泛支持该立法，以应对疫情造成的经济危机。我们利用一个来自行政登记处的大规模全国代表性两波丹麦公民（N=12131）的面板，在经济冲击开始时和经济复苏之前收集数据。在这两波中，相同的受访者都以开放文本格式描述了他们对 COVID-19 的首选经济解决方案。我们生成了一个简单的字典方法来发现一组不同的平民经济政策反应。首先，我们发现公民制定了多样化的政策干预措施。其次，随着危机的发展，公民明显更倾向于经济干预。最后，我们展示了在危机期间，不同党派之间的经济偏好差异是如何消失的。
