COVID-19 projections, media, and attitudes toward preventive measures

• Principal investigator: Frédérick Bastien (Département de science politique, UdeM)

• Research Team: Jean-François Daoust (Department of Political Science, University of Edinburgh)

• Grant: CSDC COVID-19 special grant

• Project description

In itself, this investigation will improve our understanding of citizens’ perceptions of the crisis and entailimportant implicationsonthe way the media and the governmentsshouldcommunicate their information.We willbecombiningour results with a study conducted during the Canadian 2019 election4where wealso exposed respondents to a projection (pre-election poll) randomizing who and how it was shared.Wewill have a strong study for which we will provide crucial findings in both electoral (Canada 2019) andnon-electoral (COVID-19 pandemic) contexts