Who Loves Lockdowns? Public Service Motivation, Bureaucratic Personality, and Support for COVID-19 Containment Policy

IF 2.2 3区管理学 Q2 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Public Performance & Management Review Pub Date : 2022-09-23 DOI:10.1080/15309576.2022.2124296

Y. Ahn, Jesse W. Campbell

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Abstract

Abstract Policies adopted to curb the spread of COVID-19 impose limits on individual freedom and although some citizens have consistently supported containment policy, others have resisted. Beyond political orientation, however, little research has explored the attitudinal basis of support for stringent virus containment policy. We argue that individuals with high levels of public service motivation (PSM) will more readily accept the sacrifices entailed by containment policy and thereby express stronger support for it. Second, we argue that the positive relationship between PSM and containment policy support is both mediated by trust in government and moderated by bureaucratic personality, the latter denoting a favorable orientation towards rules in general. Using a country-wide sample of 568 South Korean citizens collected in the fall of 2021, we estimate a conditional process model of support for COVID-19 policy stringency. We find that PSM has both a direct and indirect relationship with support via trust in government and that the indirect effect is moderated by bureaucratic personality, though not in the expected direction. We also report the results of a post hoc analysis which suggests interesting differences in how individuals evaluate rules that limit individual versus organizational freedom.

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谁喜欢封锁?公共服务动机、官僚个性与对疫情防控政策的支持

遏制新冠肺炎传播的政策限制了个人自由，尽管一些公民一直支持遏制政策，但也有人反对。然而，除了政治取向之外，很少有研究探讨支持严格的病毒控制政策的态度基础。我们认为，具有高水平公共服务动机(PSM)的个人将更容易接受遏制政策所带来的牺牲，从而表达更强烈的支持。其次，我们认为PSM与遏制政策支持之间的正向关系既受政府信任的中介作用，也受官僚人格的调节作用，后者总体上表明对规则的偏好。利用2021年秋季在全国范围内收集的568名韩国公民样本，我们估计了支持COVID-19政策严谨性的条件过程模型。我们发现，PSM与政府信任的支持有直接和间接的关系，而间接影响受到官僚人格的调节，尽管不是在预期的方向上。我们还报告了一项事后分析的结果，该结果表明，个人如何评估限制个人与组织自由的规则的有趣差异。

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Public Performance & Management Review PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION-

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