COVID-19: effective policymaking depends on trust in experts, politicians, and the public
COVID-19: effective policymaking depends on trust in experts, politicians, and the public
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DOI：
10.1080/25741292.2020.1837466
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发表时间：
2021-01-02
影响因子：
7
通讯作者：
Wellstead, Adam
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作者：
Cairney, Paul;Wellstead, Adam
在危机中，几乎瞬间做出的信任或不信任某人的选择可能关乎生死。信任对于合作、协调、社会秩序以及减少国家强制实施的必要性至关重要。在疫情期间，人们需要信任专家以帮助他们理解问题并做出应对，需要信任政府来协调政策手段并就强制程度做出选择，也需要信任公民之间的合作以尽量减少感染。我们将这些一般性要求与英国和美国的具体情况进行比较，发现：民选政治家对科学专家的依赖程度不一，对民选领导人的不信任程度令人担忧，以及政府行动从基于信任的形式转向更具强制性的形式（美国的应对措施差异更大）。虽然信任难以定义和衡量，但这些例子表明，当信任缺失时，人们会有所察觉。
In a crisis, almost-instant choices about who to trust or distrust could make a difference between life and death. Trust is necessary for cooperation, coordination, social order, and to reduce the need for coercive state imposition. During a pandemic, people need to trust experts to help them understand and respond to the problem, governments to coordinate policy instruments and make choices about levels of coercion, and citizens as they cooperate to minimize infection. We compare these general requirements with specific developments in the UK and US, identifying: the variable reliance by elected politicians on scientific experts, worrying levels of distrust in elected leaders, and a shift from a trust-based to more impositional forms of government action (with more variation in responses in the US). While trust is difficult to define and measure, these examples show that people miss it when it is gone.