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cord-028618-kn87q7nb	Flinders, Matthew	Democracy and the Politics of Coronavirus: Trust, Blame and Understanding	2020-06-23		.txt	text/plain	7319	246	47	The first is that the Coronavirus crisis emerged at a time of fundamental concern about the global state of democracy; the second is that the limited data that is currently available suggests the existence of a common crisis-linked 'rallying around the flag' effect; and (third) that this uplift in public confidence and trust may well prove to be short-lived. It is in the context of this core prediction that this sub-section makes three arguments: (i) the analysis of previous pandemics exposes the existence of a powerful socio-political 'negativity bias'; (ii) politicians will try and manage this situation through a mixture of blame-games and self-preservation strategies; and (iii) it is already possible to identify a dominant strategy in the UK context that for the sake of brevity can be labelled 'hugging the experts'.	./cache/cord-028618-kn87q7nb.txt	./txt/cord-028618-kn87q7nb.txt