RAPID: Trade-Offs Between Public Health Promotion and Legal Restrictions During the COVID-19 Pandemic

由于新冠肺炎的流行，紧急状态法和权力的颁布达到了自2001年9·11/2001恐怖袭击以来未曾见过的规模，对美国人的日常生活产生了影响。基于公众对后9/11环境中安全保护和限制个人自由之间权衡的看法的研究，该项目将使用调查，探索可能限制法律自由的新冠肺炎大流行缓解措施。因此，这项研究将确定大众对公众对公众健康保护措施的容忍度与法律限制的对比。这个项目利用对具有全国代表性的美国人口样本进行的几波调查分析，将探索公众对政府在新冠肺炎疫情期间所采取行动的看法。将利用计量经济学模型和机器学习技术来分析调查数据。研究结果将对跨学科的几个理论文献产生影响，这些文献将告知政策制定者、学者和公众相互竞争的公共卫生要求和法律保护之间的平衡。该项目由法律和科学计划(LS)和社会、行为和经济科学理事会(SBE)的多学科活动办公室(SMA)联合支持。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, emergency laws and powers on a scale not seen since the 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks have been enacted, with implications for the everyday lives of Americans. Building on research on public perceptions of trade-offs between security protections and restrictions on personal freedoms in the post-9/11 environment, this project will use surveys that explore COVID-19 pandemic mitigation efforts that potentially constrain legal freedoms. As a result, this research will determine popular tolerance for perceived public health protections versus legal restrictions. Employing several waves of survey analyses of a nationally representative sample of the US population, this project will explore public views on government actions taken during the COVID-19 pandemic. Econometric models and machine learning techniques will be utilized to analyze the survey data. Findings will have implications on several theoretical literatures across disciplines, which will inform policy makers, scholars, and the public of the balance between competing public health imperatives and legal protections.This project is jointly supported by the Law and Science Program (LS) and the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities (SMA) in the Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences (SBE).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.