Pandemic politics: policy evaluations of government responses to COVID-19

Figures & data

Table 1. Polarisation in the 10 countries: coefficient of variation of trust in government, per country.

Country	Coefficient of variation
Poland	0.97
US	0.96
France	0.82
UK	0.73
Sweden	0.64
Italy	0.62
Germany	0.61
Australia	0.58
Austria	0.53
New Zealand	0.40
Total	0.71

Figure 1. Evaluation of the public health and economic measures taken by the governments in the COVID-19 crisis, by wave, polarisation, timing and generosity of the measures: shares of respondents who are assessing the measures as adequate.

Figure 2. The effects of trust, government–opposition and wave on performance evaluations: predicted probabilities of maximum effect (trust) and average predicted values (government–opposition).