The Covid-19 pandemic is a major test for governments around the world. We study the political consequences of (mis-)managing the Covid crisis by constructing a highfrequency dataset of government approval for 35 countries. In the first weeks after the outbreak, approval rates for incumbents...

We propose that crisis experience influences preferences towards COVID-19 vaccination and the speed of vaccination during the initial phase when vaccines became available. We use macro and micro data to empirically investigate our theory and introduce a novel crisis experience index. Evidence...

The Covid-19 pandemic is a major test for governments around the world. We study the political consequences of (mis-)managing the Covid crisis by constructing a high-frequency dataset of government approval for 35 countries. In the first weeks after the outbreak, approval rates for incumbents...

Seit zwei Jahren dominiert die durch das SARS-CoV-2-Virus ausgelöste Pandemie die Welt. Sie hat alle Kontinente und Regionen erfasst, sich in mehreren Wellen ausgebreitet und immer neue Epizentren gebildet. Sie hat das Alltagsleben der Menschen durchdrungen, soziale Beziehungen verändert, die...