Swiss Municipal Data Merger Tool: Open-source Software for the Compilation of Longitudinal Municipal-level Data [0.03%]
瑞士市政数据合并工具：编成长期纵向市政级数据的开源软件
Valentin Knechtl,Alois Stutzer
Valentin Knechtl
The Swiss Municipal Data Merger Tool (Swiss MDMT) offers a solution to a frequent data management problem encountered when compiling longitudinal datasets involving Swiss municipalities as the observational units. Due to municipal mergers, ...
Right-Wing Populist Parties' Bordering Narratives in Times of Crisis: Anti-Immigration Discourse in the Genevan Borderland during the COVID-19 Pandemic [0.03%]
危机时期的右翼民粹党派的边界叙事：新冠疫情期间日内瓦边界的反移民言论
Grégoire Yerly
Grégoire Yerly
Right-wing populist parties (RWPPs) view immigration as a threat to national identity and cultural and political cohesion. This paper explores the discourse on immigration of two such parties during a systemic crisis (the COVID-19 pandemic)...
Decentralisation in Times of Crisis: Asset Or Liability? The Case of Germany and Italy During Covid-19 [0.03%]
危机时期的分权：资产还是负债？新冠疫情下德国和意大利的案例分析
Katharina Kuhn,Irene Morlino
Katharina Kuhn
How did the legal and political-administrative relationship between central and local governments of two decentralised states shape their response to COVID-19? Literature and theories on decentralisation argue that federal and decentralised...
Boosting the Understanding and Approval of Anti-Corona Measures-Reducing Exponential Growth Bias and its Effects through Educational Nudges [0.03%]
增强人们对冠状病毒防疫措施的理解和支持——通过教育引导减少指数增长偏差及其影响
Sebastian Jäckle,Felix Ettensperger
Sebastian Jäckle
One major problem of compliance with anti-coronavirus measures originates from the so-called exponential growth bias, i.e. the cognitive distortion of systematically underestimating exponential growth and its consequences. We replicate an A...
Contagious Policies? Studying National Responses to a Global Pandemic in Europe [0.03%]
传染性政策吗？在欧洲研究全球大流行病的国家回应措施
Frowin Rausis,Paula Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik
Frowin Rausis
Not only Covid-19 has spread all over the world-the policies responding to this pandemic have also diffused rapidly across countries. In this research note, we present findings from an original dataset that features mobility restrictions in...
Martino Maggetti,Iris Meyer,Anke Tresch
Martino Maggetti
Popular Attitudes Toward the Distribution of Vaccines Against COVID-19: The Swiss Case [0.03%]
新冠疫苗分配的大众态度：瑞士案例分析
Carlo M Knotz,Mia K Gandenberger,Flavia Fossati et al.
Carlo M Knotz et al.
With the arrival of vaccines against the novel coronavirus in late 2020, the issue of how vaccines should be distributed and which groups should be prioritized has become salient. We study popular attitudes toward the distribution of COVID-...
Social Media and Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Switzerland [0.03%]
瑞士社交媒体的新冠肺炎疫情及相关政策反应
Fabrizio Gilardi,Theresa Gessler,Maël Kubli et al.
Fabrizio Gilardi et al.
We study the role of social media in debates regarding two policy responses to COVID-19 in Switzerland: face-mask rules and contact-tracing apps. We use a dictionary classifier to categorize 612'177 tweets by parties, politicians, and the p...
The Role of Regulatory Agencies in Agenda-Setting Processes: Insights from the Italian Response to the COVID-19 Infodemic [0.03%]
监管机构在议程设置过程中的作用——意大利应对新冠疫情信息流行病的启示
Fabrizio Di Mascio,Alessandro Natalini,Michele Barbieri et al.
Fabrizio Di Mascio et al.
International organizations such as the WHO have worked to raise awareness of the massive infodemic that accompanied the COVID-19 outbreak and made it hard for people to find trustworthy sources of information and reliable guidance for thei...
Endre Borbáth,Sophia Hunger,Swen Hutter et al.
Endre Borbáth et al.
Measures to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic have put a sudden halt to street protests and other forms of citizen involvement in Europe. At the same time, the pandemic has increased the need for solidarity, motivating citizens to become invo...