Financing the welfare state in times of extreme crisis: public support for health care spending during the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany

Employing new and original survey data collected in three waves (April/May and November 2020 as well as May 2021) in Germany, this paper studies the dynamics of individual-level support for additional health care spending. A first major finding is that, so far, health care spending preferences have...

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COVID-19
Covid-19 pandemic
Crises
Germany
Health care
Health care expenditures
health care spending
Health services
Individual differences
Pandemics
Policy making
political trust
Public opinion
Radicalism
Welfare state
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