Pandemien i Nordatlanten: Hvordan covid-19 har forenet en polariseret mikronation -- og hvordan velkendte konflikter stadig ulmer. (Danish)

The pandemic in the North Atlantic: How COVID-19 has united a polarized micronation -- and how well-known conflicts are still smouldering. (English)

The COVID-19 pandemic has illustrated the significance of popular support for -- or resistance against -- scientific and political authorities in a declared state of emergency. Based on quantitative and comparative surveys, the article examines popular attitudes to COVID-19-related issues in a democratic micronation within the Danish kingdom, the Faroe Islands. Furthermore, the article examines what demographic factors can explain popular support for the way public authorities have managed the pandemic as well as the willingness to be vaccinated. The article concludes that the COVID-19 pandemic has united the Faroese population across partisan, ideological and other demographic cleavages. However, the survey also finds that public opinion is a changeable phenomenon and that well-known cleavages such as political ideology, religion and age might still explain popular disagreements on COVID-19-related issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Covid-19-pandemien har illustreret betydningen af folkelig støtte til -- eller modstand imod -- videnskabelige og politiske myndigheder i en undtagelsessituation. Med udgangspunkt i kvantitative komparative undersøgelser er formålet med denne artikel at undersøge folkelige holdninger til coronarelaterede spørgsmål i en demokratisk mikronation i rigsfællesskabet, Færøerne. Dernæst undersøger artiklen, hvilke demografiske individfaktorer kan være med til at forklare folkelig støtte til myndighedernes håndtering og villigheden at lade sig vaccinere. Artiklen konkluderer, at covid-19-pandemien overordnet har forenet den færøske befolkning på tværs af partipolitiske, ideologiske og andre demografiske skillelinjer. Men undersøgelserne viser også, at den folkelige opinion er en omskiftelig størrelse, og at velkendte konfliktlinjer så som politisk ideologi, religion og alder stadig kan forklare folkelige uenigheder om spørgsmål vedrørende covid-19. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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