Public trust, policing, and the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from an electoral authoritarian regime.
COVID-19 pandemic
Policing
Public health
Survey experiments
Trust in government
Uganda
Journal
Social science & medicine (1982)
ISSN: 1873-5347
Titre abrégé: Soc Sci Med
Pays: England
ID NLM: 8303205
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
07 2022
07 2022
Historique:
received:
08
12
2021
revised:
12
05
2022
accepted:
13
05
2022
pubmed:
28
5
2022
medline:
22
6
2022
entrez:
27
5
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
We examine how trust shapes compliance with public health restrictions during the COVID- 19 pandemic in Uganda. We use an endorsement experiment embedded in a mobile phone survey to show that messages from government officials generate more support for public health restrictions than messages from religious authorities, traditional leaders, or international NGOs. We further show that compliance with these restrictions is strongly positively correlated with trust in government, but only weakly correlated with trust in local authorities or other citizens. We use measures of trust from both before and during the pandemic to rule out the possibility that trust is a function of the pandemic itself. The relationship between trust and compliance is especially strong for the Ministry of Health and-more surprisingly-the police. We conclude that trust is crucial for encouraging compliance but note that it may be difficult to sustain, particularly in settings where governments and police forces have reputations for repression.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35623233
pii: S0277-9536(22)00351-3
doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115045
pmc: PMC9122739
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
115045Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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