Pre-Analysis Plan: Solidarity and Performance Voting: Evidence from the COVID-19 vaccination programme

In this project, we study international solidarity and international benchmarking during the cur- rent COVID-19 pandemic. The roll-out of the vaccination program provides a unique opportunity to study both, the citizens’ attitudes towards international solidarity as well as the effect of bench- marking on voter attitudes and behaviour. We seek to answer the following research questions : Work Package 1: International Solidarity 1. What are the predictors of citizens’ willigness to share COVID-19? 2. can information campaigns increase international solidarity among citizens? Work Package 2: Benchmarking 1. How do international comparisons with regard to the performance of governments affect voter attitudes and behaviour? We ran a pre-test between 27-28 of April collecting 305 observations (see earlier version of the pre-analysis plan and questionnaire). After that, we changed the following: • We included a manipulation check for experiment 1 (pre- and post-treatment question) • In addition to our behavioural outcome, we included an additional attitudinal outcome for experiment 1 • We included age as a covariate to measure heterogenous treatment effects for experiment 2