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Research Note | Appendix Did the COVID-19 Pandemic Reduce Attention to Environmental Issues?A Panel Study Among Parents in Belgium, 2019-2020 |
Trefwoorden | issue competition, COVID-19 pandemic, panel study, environmental concern, Belgium |
Auteurs | Sari Verachtert, Dieter Stiers en Marc Hooghe |
DOI | 10.5553/PLC/.000031A |
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Sari Verachtert, Dieter Stiers en Marc Hooghe, "Appendix Did the COVID-19 Pandemic Reduce Attention to Environmental Issues?", Politics of the Low Countries, 1, (2022):
Theories on issue competition assume that there is only a limited number of issues that a person prioritises simultaneously. In this research note, we test this mechanism by using a panel study that was conducted among Belgian parents in 2019 and 2020. Between the two observations of the study, the country suffered a severe health crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We investigate whether this crisis reduced the priority of environmental issues among respondents. Our results show that there was indeed a significant decline of some indicators for environmental concern, but not for others. Furthermore, we show that a higher priority for the health-related and economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with a steeper decline in environmental concern. |