Understanding public appraisal of the governments’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic has extensive implications for the political management of crises that require a substantial amount of civil collaboration. Using open data from a comparative online survey in eight countries (Australia, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States), we have run mixed multilevel fixed-effects models for the pooled data and linear regression models for each country to investigate which factors are associated with respondents’ evaluations (i.e. assessments of the effectiveness) of their governments’ responses to the pandemic. Results show that political orientations, including left-right ideology and interventionist values, are strongly associated with evaluations. Their associations with government evaluations are remarkably similar in all eight countries, indicating that the pattern of influence persists across different contexts. In some countries, personal experiences with the crisis and socio-demographic characteristics also condition the evaluation of governments’ responses. Our results show that political ideology serves as a shortcut for the assessment of urgent and controversial measures by governments. This has implications for the ability of governments to elicit citizens’ cooperation with the policies confronting the crisis and can impact the effectiveness of government responses to protect people from harm.

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我们是否通过偏光镜看待危机？预测八个国家对 COVID-19 大流行的官方早期反应的公众评估

了解公众对政府应对 COVID-19 大流行的评估对需要大量民间合作的危机的政治管理具有广泛的影响。使用来自八个国家（澳大利亚、德国、意大利、墨西哥、西班牙、瑞典、英国和美国）的比较在线调查的公开数据，我们为汇总数据和线性回归运行了混合多级固定效应模型每个国家的模型，以调查哪些因素与受访者对其政府应对大流行病的评估（即有效性评估）相关。结果表明，政治取向，包括左右意识形态和干预主义价值观，与评估密切相关。他们与政府评估的关联在所有八个国家都非常相似，表明影响模式在不同背景下持续存在。在一些国家，个人对危机的经历和社会人口特征也决定了对政府应对措施的评估。我们的结果表明，政治意识形态是政府评估紧急和有争议措施的捷径。这对政府促使公民配合应对危机的政策的能力有影响，并可能影响政府保护人民免受伤害的反应的有效性。个人对危机的经历和社会人口特征也决定了对政府应对措施的评估。我们的结果表明，政治意识形态是政府评估紧急和有争议措施的捷径。这对政府促使公民配合应对危机的政策的能力有影响，并可能影响政府保护人民免受伤害的反应的有效性。个人对危机的经历和社会人口特征也决定了对政府应对措施的评估。我们的结果表明，政治意识形态是政府评估紧急和有争议措施的捷径。这对政府促使公民配合应对危机的政策的能力有影响，并可能影响政府保护人民免受伤害的反应的有效性。