Pandemics meet democracy: Experimental evidence from the COVID-19 crisis in Spain

It poses a set of democratic dilemmas that we analyze in this paper: Francesc Amat Pandemics meet democracy OECD Webinar 2 / 19 2 Between health and individual freedom 3 Between party politics and technocratic governance Research question: How citizens’ political preferences have changed in the face of the COVID crisis? Theory Empirical design Empirical results Conclusions Implications Motivation. [...] It poses a set of democratic dilemmas that we analyze in this paper: 1 Between national and global management of the pandemics Francesc Amat Pandemics meet democracy OECD Webinar 2 / 19 3 Between party politics and technocratic governance Research question: How citizens’ political preferences have changed in the face of the COVID crisis? Theory Empirical design Empirical results Conclusions Implic. [...] It poses a set of democratic dilemmas that we analyze in this paper: 1 Between national and global management of the pandemics 2 Between health and individual freedom Francesc Amat Pandemics meet democracy OECD Webinar 2 / 19 Research question: How citizens’ political preferences have changed in the face of the COVID crisis? Theory Empirical design Empirical results Conclusions Implications Motiva. [...] It poses a set of democratic dilemmas that we analyze in this paper: 1 Between national and global management of the pandemics 2 Between health and individual freedom 3 Between party politics and technocratic governance Francesc Amat Pandemics meet democracy OECD Webinar 2 / 19 Theory Empirical design Empirical results Conclusions Implications Motivation The COVID-19 crisis represents an unprecede. [...] When evaluating the change in citizens’ preferences, we also find: 1 a sizable increase in technocratic preferences Francesc Amat Pandemics meet democracy OECD Webinar 3 / 19 Theory Empirical design Empirical results Conclusions Implications Preview: We analyze these dilemmas using a panel survey and survey experiments fielded in Spain in January, March and June 2020.