Lihi Lahat is a current visiting scholar at the Helen Diller Institute.
The following is an abstract of Lihi Lahat's most recent article. Click here to read the full piece.
Using Moral Foundation Theory, we explored whether values, institutional trust, and risk perceptions affected support for policy tools in COVID-19 immunisation. We asked which variables were more influential and whether Israel and the United Kingdom differed. We used a quantitative method based on surveys and found that values played an essential role, mainly with coercive tools, but differently in the UK and Israel. Risk perceptions were more influential in Israel, and institutional trust was more influential in the UK. Values-oriented analysis adds to the behavioural aspects of the policy tools literature and can help policymakers choose policy tools and communicate them.