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Majority acceptance of vaccination and mandates across the political spectrum in Australia
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The Australian government has recently introduced some of the strictest vaccination mandates in the world. In light of international studies warning that public opposition to vaccination mandates could undermine public consensus about the value of vaccination, we conduct an original study of more than 1000 Australians on attitudes towards both vaccination and mandates. We find that, in contrast to similar studies in the United States and the United Kingdom, support for both vaccination and mandates is very high, with no significant opposition from any political subgroup. Apart from attitudes towards vaccination itself, there appears to be no separate attitudinal dimension that generates political opposition to vaccination mandates in Australia. This shows the importance of national political context in debates about vaccination policy.
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- Authors
- Smith, D. T., Attwell, K., & Evers, U.
- Affiliations
- The University of Sydney (AU)
- The University of Western Australia (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Smith, David T
- Venue
- Politics
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2019-07-01
- Volume
- 40
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 189-206
- ISSN
- 0263-3957 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-9256
- OpenAlex
- W2955735539
- Cited by
- 89
- References
- 24
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 46 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 25 · 2020: 2
- FWCI
- 8.80
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Licence
- Locations
- Politics (publishedVersion)
- UWA Profiles and Research Repository (UWA) (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Funders
- Australian Research Council (LP150100434)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Health › Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Electoral Systems and Political Participation
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Risk Perception and Management
- Keywords
- mandatory vaccination, vaccine acceptance, vaccine attitudes, political attitudes, partisanship, vaccination policy, Australia
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