Ward J.K. auteur aut IRD Alleaume C. auteur aut IRD Perreti-Watel P. auteur aut IRD Seror V. auteur aut IRD Cortaredona Sébastien auteur aut IRD Launay O. auteur aut IRD Raude J. auteur aut IRD Verger P. auteur aut IRD Beck F. auteur aut IRD Legleye S. auteur aut IRD L'Haridon O. auteur aut IRD Groupe Coconel auteur aut IRD text journalArticle eng text/pdf born digital access As Covid-19 spreads across the world, governments turn a hopeful eye towards research and development of a vaccine against this new disease. But it is one thing to make a vaccine available, and it is quite another to convince the public to take the shot, as the precedent of the 2009 H1N1 influenza illustrated. In this paper, we present the results of four online surveys conducted in April 2020 in representative samples of the French population 18 years of age and over (N?=?5018). These surveys were conducted during a period when the French population was on lockdown and the daily number of deaths attributed to the virus reached its peak. We found that if a vaccine against the new coronavirus became available, almost a quarter of respondents would not use it. We also found that attitudes to this vaccine were correlated significantly with political partisanship and engagement with the political system. Attitudes towards this future vaccine did not follow the traditional mapping of political attitudes along a Left-Right axis. The rift seems to be between people who feel close to governing parties (Centre, Left and Right) on the one hand, and, on the other, people who feel close to Far-Left and Far-Right parties as well as people who do not feel close to any party. We draw on the French sociological literature on ordinary attitudes to politics to discuss our results as well as the cultural pathways via which political beliefs can affect perceptions of vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic. specialized FRANCE 056POLSAN 056SOCSAN 050EPID 265 113414 [6 ] 2020 0277-9536 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010086273 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113414 0277-9536 [F B010086273] https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010086273 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/2023-06/010086273.pdf Accès réservé (Intranet de l'IRD) IRD - Base Horizon / Pleins textes 2022-10-24 2025-02-24 fdi:010086273 fre