Rita Haverkamp, Frederik Kohler: Who Accepts What During the Crisis? Results From an Online Survey on the Acceptance of COVID-19 Protective Measures (in German)

During the COVID-19 pandemic, government emergency measures restricted fundamental rights to an unprecedented extent. Containing coronavirus infections depended entirely on the willingness of the population to comply with these rules. The acceptance of emergency measures among the population fluctuated.

This raises the question of who accepts and complies with such emergency rules and under what conditions.

The article addresses the question of norm acceptance during the COVID-19 pandemic based on empirical findings from an online vignette survey of 6,000 respondents in Germany.

The focus is on how security actors can promote norm acceptance among the population when enforcing emergency measures.

In presenting the results of the online vignette survey, the focus is on the influence of various factors, such as fairness, on the creation of norm acceptance among the population.