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Americans’ Trust in Government and Health Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Elizabeth Suhay, Aparna Soni, Claudia Persico, Dave E. Marcotte
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences December 2022, 8 (8) 221-244; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.8.10
Elizabeth Suhay
aAssociate professor in the Department of Government, School of Public Affairs, American University, United States
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Aparna Soni
bAssistant professor in the Department of Public Administration and Policy, School of Public Affairs, American University, United States
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cAssistant professor in the Department of Public Administration and Policy, School of Public Affairs, American University, United States
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vol. 8 no. 8 221-244
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.8.10

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
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2377-8253
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2377-8261
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  • Published online December 15, 2022.

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© 2022 Russell Sage Foundation. Suhay, Elizabeth, Aparna Soni, Claudia Persico, and Dave E. Marcotte. 2022. “Americans’ Trust in Government and Health Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 8(8): 221–44. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2022.8.8.10. We gratefully acknowledge funding from the National Science Foundation (Award #2037331). Austin Bartola and Alexandra Rakus provided excellent research assistance. Direct correspondence to: Elizabeth Suhay, at suhay@american.edu, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC 20016, United States. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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  1. Elizabeth Suhaya,
  2. Aparna Sonib,
  3. Claudia Persicoc and
  4. Dave E. Marcotted
  1. aAssociate professor in the Department of Government, School of Public Affairs, American University, United States
  2. bAssistant professor in the Department of Public Administration and Policy, School of Public Affairs, American University, United States
  3. cAssistant professor in the Department of Public Administration and Policy, School of Public Affairs, American University, United States
  4. dProfessor in the Department of Public Administration and Policy, School of Public Affairs, American University, United States
  1. Correspondence author:
    Elizabeth Suhay, (suhay{at}american.edu)
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