Pandemic Politics: How the COVID 19 Pandemic Revealed the Depths of American Polarization

 As the coronavirus pandemic reshapes all facets of the American public life, this project investigates how the public perceives of the crisis and how those perceptions continue to matter more than a year after the initial crisis. Political polarization makes governance more difficult and has proven to be deadly in this pandemic. This project focuses on the partisan impacts of the pandemic on health behaviors and evaluations of government performance.

 

Shana Kushner Gadarian is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University.