RAPID: Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic on Rural Attitudes about Federal Aid and Recovery

RAPID：COVID-19 大流行对农村对联邦援助和恢复态度的影响

• 批准号: 2029990
• 负责人: Justin Farrell
• 金额: $ 17.87万
• 依托单位: Yale University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-06-01 至 2021-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2029990&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Impacts; COVID; 19; Pandemic

The scale of the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated historic action by the federal government to stem social and economic fallout, as demonstrated by federal relief programs exceeding $2.2 trillion. These and other federal interventions in the U.S. economy and society represent a potential shift in the role of government. Yet public opposition to federal programs is historically strong in many rural areas of the country. Given the magnitude of the pandemic, how will this crisis affect long standing attitudes towards federal aid programs and the role of government in society in rural areas? Furthermore, how will public attitudes towards federal aid in rural communities shape how much aid is allocated, what form it takes, and how it is received by rural communities? This project examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on public attitudes towards federal aid and the role of government in rural U.S. communities. Findings from the project will be useful to leaders at several levels of government as they work with their communities to distribute aid to facilitate recovery. As such, the findings will also be useful to leaders within the context of future pandemics or other extreme events, thus promoting U.S. safety and security. The COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated historic investment in federal relief programs, and yet such programs have often been viewed negatively in rural areas of the country. This project will address this development through a new two-wave representative survey of residents in rural communities across eleven states in the western United States (Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming). Each wave will consist of 1,200 respondents and will be conducted through a mix of telephone and online outreach by a professional survey firm. The first wave will be conducted immediately, in the midst of the pandemic, and the second wave in spring 2021. The survey will be supplemented with 33 semi-structured interviews (three per state) with government staff, elected officials, and NGO leaders, all based in counties sampled through the survey. These interviews will augment information from rural communities and will provide a macro-level picture of how communities have been impacted by the pandemic. Findings from the project will inform sociological theories related to changes in social ideology in the context of extreme events, as well as theories explaining political and moral identities. In addition, the project integrates findings and concepts related to heretofore largely distinct literatures, one involving rural sociology and the other involving disaster research.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

COVID-19大流行的规模需要联邦政府采取历史性行动来遏制社会和经济后果，联邦救济计划超过2. 2万亿美元就是明证。这些以及其他联邦对美国经济和社会的干预，代表着政府角色的潜在转变。然而，在美国的许多农村地区，公众对联邦计划的反对历来很强烈。考虑到疫情的严重性，这场危机将如何影响人们对联邦援助计划的长期态度以及政府在农村地区社会中的作用？此外，公众对农村社区联邦援助的态度将如何影响分配多少援助，采取什么形式，以及农村社区如何接受援助？该项目研究了COVID-19大流行对公众对联邦援助的态度以及政府在美国农村社区的作用的影响。该项目的调查结果将对各级政府领导人有用，因为他们与社区合作，分发援助，以促进恢复。 因此，研究结果也将有助于领导人在未来的流行病或其他极端事件的背景下，从而促进美国的安全和保障。 COVID-19大流行需要对联邦救济计划进行历史性投资，但此类计划在该国农村地区往往被视为负面。 该项目将通过对美国西部11个州（亚利桑那州、加州、科罗拉多、爱达荷州、蒙大拿州、内华达州、新墨西哥州、俄勒冈州、犹他州、华盛顿、怀俄明州）的农村社区居民进行新的两波代表性调查来解决这一问题。每一波将有1 200名答卷人，将由一家专业调查公司通过电话和在线外联相结合的方式进行。第一波将于疫情期间立即进行，第二波将于二零二一年春季进行。调查将辅以33个半结构化访谈（每个州三个），访谈对象是政府工作人员、民选官员和非政府组织领导人，所有访谈都来自调查抽样县。这些访谈将增加来自农村社区的信息，并从宏观上说明社区如何受到这一流行病的影响。 该项目的调查结果将为与极端事件背景下社会意识形态变化相关的社会学理论以及解释政治和道德身份的理论提供信息。 此外，该项目还整合了迄今为止在农村社会学和灾害研究方面截然不同的文献的相关发现和概念。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on rural America

• DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2019378118
• 发表时间: 2021-01-05
• 期刊: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
• 影响因子: 11.1
• 作者: Mueller, J. Tom;McConnell, Kathryn;Farrell, Justin
• 通讯作者: Farrell, Justin

‘The Green New Deal’ as partisan cue: Evidence from a survey experiment in the rural U.S.

“绿色新政”作为党派线索：来自美国农村地区调查实验的证据

• DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2022.2090655
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Environmental Politics
• 影响因子: 5.5
• 作者: McConnell, Kathryn

Informal modes of social support among residents of the rural American West during the COVID-19 pandemic.

COVID-19 大流行期间美国西部农村居民的非正式社会支持模式。

• DOI: 10.1111/ruso.12507
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Rural sociology
• 影响因子: 2.3
• 作者: McConnell,Kathryn;Mueller,JTom;Merdjanoff,AlexisA;Burow,PaulBerne;Farrell,Justin
• 通讯作者: Farrell,Justin

Impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on rural America. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Covid-19 大流行对美国农村的影响。

• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
• 影响因子: 11.1
• 作者: Mueller, J. T.