How the COVID-19 pandemic has affected political trust

Five years have passed since 22 March 2020, when the German government at the time imposed the first lockdown in an effort to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. What began as a two-week measure developed into a prolonged crisis that led to restrictions on close interpersonal contact, curfews, and closed schools and daycare centers. In the three pandemic years that followed, attitudes in Germany towards political institutions changed considerably.

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