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Journal of Chinese Political Science
Erschienen in: Journal of Chinese Political Science 1/2022

27.07.2021 | Research Article

A Typology of Political Trustors in Contemporary China: The Relevance of Authoritarian Culture and Perceived Institutional Performance

verfasst von: Anning Hu, Chen Yin

Erschienen in: Journal of Chinese Political Science | Ausgabe 1/2022

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Abstract

Drawing on measures of diffuse and specific political support, this article proposes a typology of political trustors and investigates how it is related to authoritarian culture and perceived institutional performance. Using data from the Chinese Social Trust Survey 2011, we find that (1) compliants whose specific support and diffuse support are both high occupy the largest proportion, although critical citizens (high diffuse support but low specific support), contingentists (low diffuse support but high specific support), and cynics (low levels of both diffuse and specific support) also respectively stand for a considerable fraction of the population. (2) Notwithstanding the general positive correlation trustors of political institutions and trustors of political actors still diverge from each other for a noteworthy proportion of respondents. (3) The average level of perceived institutional performance and the extent of adherence to traditional authoritarian culture are both positively correlated with the likelihood of being a compliant, while both negatively correlated with the likelihood of being a cynic. In contrast, having faith in authoritarian culture promotes, while perceived institutional performance abates, the odds of being a critical citizen. The pattern for contingentists is reversed compared with that of critical citizens.
Vorheriger Artikel Performance, Factions, and Promotion in China: The Role of Provincial Transfers
Nächster Artikel Testing the Relationship between Land Approval and Promotion Incentives of Provincial Top Leaders in China

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1
However, it is inappropriate to assume mutual independence between these two types of political support. In fact, they have been noted to be positively correlated, as affirmed by this article.
 
2
Perhaps that is why Wu and Wilkes [49] adopted the terminology “critical trustors” instead of “critical citizens.” However, since the major theoretical rationale underlying the type of critical trustors comes from the idea of critical citizens, it seems straightforward to use the theoretically familiar term “critical citizens,” which would call for more explicit measures of diffuse and specific support.
 
3
The limited survey sites suggest that caveats have to be stipulated when generalizing the conclusions to the whole country. However, the survey sites were intentionally chosen by the designers to cover different geographical regions as well as different levels of economic development, which should partly alleviate the concern of sampling coverage.
 
4
This relatively small alpha value suggests that these items in the urban sample are not very strongly consistent with each other. However, this is understandable in light of the fact that these items are “designed” in the first place to gauge the attitudes toward different aspects of government activities. In this regard, they can complement each other when constructing the summation measure, and the limited consistency may not quite be an issue.
 
5
The ordered logistic regression model is inappropriate due to the violation of the proportional odds assumption.
 
6
In fact, the surveyed items are not quite politically sensitive [25], so respondents could have limited concerns when reporting their answers.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
A Typology of Political Trustors in Contemporary China: The Relevance of Authoritarian Culture and Perceived Institutional Performance
verfasst von
Anning Hu
Chen Yin
Publikationsdatum
27.07.2021
Verlag
Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in
Journal of Chinese Political Science / Ausgabe 1/2022
Print ISSN: 1080-6954
Elektronische ISSN: 1874-6357
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11366-021-09751-6

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