2/ ... and the type of crisis (and the nature of the response) may come with its own implications. For some crises, it might be more clear which level of government "owns" the transboundary crisis. We also discuss this in the paper.

Important questions! We also reflect on the generalizability of the findings in our article. Yes, the effect of the governmental level may be very different in another context. Think also of countries, such as Belgium and Spain, in which MLG can be more contested...

... it would be interesting to study these legitimacy questions from a bottom-up citizens’ perspective, also for global threats like climate and defense.

And 2/ would be an excellent question for further research. Based on our empirical findings, we cannot link to these debates. Crises often act as a catalyst for supranational integration, but there are also concerns about the legitimacy of the EU (and IOs) as a transboundary crisis manager...

... citizens may construct their legitimacy perceptions based on previous crisis experiences and a country’s administrative tradition. We also acknowledge that the Covid-19 memory and retrospective evaluations can play a role in our experimental setting.

Thought-provoking questions! And yes /1 is very important, and the differences between NL and GE also hint into this direction (& this is in line with our ‘institutional hypothesis’)...

3️⃣ There is however some country-specific variation: in the Netherlands, citizens consider restrictive measures as more legitimate when they are decided by the national government, as compared to the regional government, whereas in Germany we find no significant difference.

2️⃣ For the legitimacy of restrictive measures, it matters very little which level of government takes a decision.

Based on a survey experiment with Dutch and German citizens, we show that:
1️⃣ Citizens do consider region-specific crisis interventions as equally legitimate as nation-wide ones

En voor meer informatie over het volledige programma, zie shorturl.at/Gjzwq

6/6 En tot slot: wie meer wil lezen over ons onderzoek, check hier onze pre-prints (in ENG): osf.io/preprints/os... en osf.io/preprints/os.... En voor ons NL-talige onderzoeksrapport, zie: kennis.zuid-holland.nl/wp-content/u...

5/6 Als polarisatie toeneemt, kan begrip voor vreedzaam protest afnemen. Hoeveel ruimte gunnen we onze politieke tegenpolen? ⚖️