ArticleCanadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2024
Political partisanship, laissez-faire attitudes, and COVID-19 behaviours and viewpoints in Canada and the United States.
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- Where public health meets public opinion: Understanding political support for fluoridation in Calgary, 2021.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2025Article
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objectiveIn the United States, clear partisan differences in responses to COVID-19 have been shown in leadership and elite cueing at the state level as well as in perspectives and behaviours of the citizenry. This study probes differences in political values-particularly the prevalence of laissez-faire attitudes-that might explain the stronger social consensus on pandemic countermeasures seen in Canada.
methodsData were obtained from temporally aligned waves of cross-sectional surveys of Canadian and US adults in the first year of the pandemic. Survey questions were used to construct an index of laissez-faire attitudes (LFA) which, along with demographic variables and measures of partisanship, was incorporated into regression models to predict three outcomes: practice of personal mitigation measures (e.g. mask wearing), level of worry about the pandemic, and likeliness to get a vaccine.
resultsLFA scores had a strong negative relationship to all three outcomes for Canadians and Americans, albeit with larger effects among the Americans on two outcomes. Overall differences in LFA scores between Americans and Canadians were modest (0.04 on a 0-1 scale). However, Republican Party stalwarts had considerably higher LFA scores and were proportionally more numerous than Conservative loyalists in Canada. While there were partisan differences in LFA scores within Canada, the largest gap by far was between Republicans and Democrats in the USA. Respondents from Canada's Prairie provinces had slightly higher average LFA scores but there were no significant residence effects on outcomes.
conclusionLaissez-faire attitudes that may conflict with public health values and measures are much more prevalent in the USA than in Canada. This difference underpins the limited effects of political partisanship and broad consensus in the Canadian public's responses to the pandemic.
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