Gadarian featured in Vox article on anxiety, coronavirus, and politics

April 28, 2020

Vox

Shana Kushner Gadarian

Political Science Department

Campbell Public Affairs Institute

COVID-19

Mental Health

Political Parties

United States

Vox

Shana Kushner Gadarian

"We’ve recommended that the medical experts be up front and center, and the political leaders take a step back and defer to the doctors and to the head of the health agencies, because that’s who anxious people want to hear from," says Shana Gadarian, associate professor of political science and co-author of Anxious Politics: Democratic Citizenship in a Threatening World. "They don’t want to hear as much from the political leaders, particularly when they think that the performance to date has been pretty bad, which we see in the polling." Gadarian was interviewed for the Vox article "How anxiety changes political behavior." 04/28/20