State-level Citizen Response to COVID-19 Containment Measures in Brazil and Mexico

IF 1.6 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE Journal of Politics in Latin America Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI:10.1177/1866802X211057135
Claire Dunn, Isabel G. Laterzo
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In Brazil and Mexico, presidents failed to take swift, national action to stop the spread of COVID-19. Instead, the burden of imposing and enforcing public health measures has largely fallen to subnational leaders, resulting in varied approaches within each country and conflicting messaging from elites. We likewise see variation in compliance with social distancing across subnational units. To explain this variation, we contend that citizen responses are driven both by the comprehensiveness of state policies and whether they take cues from national or subnational elites. We hypothesize that support for national and subnational elites, and the nature of the state-level policy response, affect citizen compliance with public health guidelines. In both countries, we find that support for the governor has an interactive relationship with policy response. In Brazil, support for the president is associated with lower compliance. In Mexico, this effect is not present. We argue that these distinct relationships are due to the different cues emerging from each leader.
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巴西和墨西哥对新冠肺炎控制措施的州一级公民反应
在巴西和墨西哥,总统未能采取迅速的国家行动来阻止COVID-19的传播。相反,实施和执行公共卫生措施的负担在很大程度上落在了地方领导人身上,导致每个国家内部的方法各不相同,精英们发出的信息也相互矛盾。我们还看到,各级地方单位在遵守社交距离方面存在差异。为了解释这种差异,我们认为公民的反应是由国家政策的全面性以及他们是否受到国家或地方精英的暗示所驱动的。我们假设,对国家和地方精英的支持,以及州级政策反应的性质,会影响公民对公共卫生指南的遵守。在这两个国家,我们发现对州长的支持与政策反应存在互动关系。在巴西,对总统的支持与较低的遵从率有关。在墨西哥,这种效应不存在。我们认为,这些不同的关系是由于来自每个领导者的不同暗示。
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