Traditional Values and Political Trust in China

2016 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 350-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yida Zhai
Keyword(s):  
Political Trust ◽  
Institutional Trust ◽  
Trust In Government ◽  
Traditional Values ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Political Values ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Traditional Family ◽  
Different Dimensions

Chinese traditional culture is viewed to sustain political trust in the authoritarian regime. Given that Chinese cultural traditions are complex and multi-dimensional, it is ineffective to deal with this notion by a single index. This study divides Chinese traditional values into a non-political dimension (traditional family and social values) and a political dimension (traditional political values). Then, I empirically test how different dimensions of Chinese cultural traditions shape the ordinary people’s orientations toward their political institutions and government officials. The results show that the impact of traditional values on political trust varies by its different dimensions. Traditional political values and social values are positively correlated with both institutional trust and trust in government officials. Traditional family values are positively correlated with trust in government officials but do not have an effect on institutional trust. Liberal democratic values negatively correlate with trust in government officials, but this effect on institutional trust is not significant.

Political Trust and Support for Immigration in the American Mass Public

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Macdonald
Keyword(s):  
Public Attitudes ◽  
General Social Survey ◽  
Political Trust ◽  
Trust In Government ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Political Values ◽  
Cultural Attitudes ◽  
Democrats And Republicans ◽  
Election Studies ◽  
Attitudes Toward Immigration

Abstract Immigration is one of the most salient and important issues in contemporary American politics. While a great deal is known about how cultural attitudes and economics influence public opinion toward immigration, little is known about how attitudes toward government influence support for immigration. Using cross-sectional data from the American National Election Studies (ANES), panel data from the ANES and General Social Survey, as well a Mechanical Turk (MTurk) survey experiment, I show that political trust exerts a positive and substantively meaningful influence on Americans' support for immigration. Politically trustful individuals, both Democrats and Republicans, are more supportive of pro-immigration policies. These findings underscore the political relevance of trust in government and show that public attitudes toward immigration are not driven solely by feelings about immigrant groups, partisanship, core political values, nor personality traits, but are also affected by trust in government, the actor most responsible for managing immigration policy.

Trust in Government and the American Public’s Responsiveness to Rising Inequality

2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 790-804 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Macdonald
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
State Level ◽  
Political Trust ◽  
The United States ◽  
Trust In Government ◽  
Combine Data ◽  
Election Studies ◽  
The Relationship

The United States has become increasingly unequal. Income inequality has risen dramatically since the 1970s, yet public opinion toward redistribution has remained largely unchanged. This is puzzling, given Americans’ professed concern regarding, and knowledge of, rising inequality. I argue that trust in government can help to reconcile this. I combine data on state-level income inequality with survey data from the Cumulative American National Election Studies (CANES) from 1984 to 2016. I find that trust in government conditions the relationship between inequality and redistribution, with higher inequality prompting demand for government redistribution, but only among politically trustful individuals. This holds among conservatives and non-conservatives and among the affluent and non-affluent. These findings underscore the relevance of political trust in shaping attitudes toward inequality and economic redistribution and contribute to our understanding of why American public opinion has not turned in favor of redistribution during an era of rising income inequality.

scholarly journals Socioeconomic Status and COVID-19-Related Psychological Panic in China: The Role of Trust in Government and Authoritarian Personality

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (20) ◽  
pp. 10888
Author(s):  
Xiaona Xie ◽  
Tingting Wu ◽  
Yue Zhang ◽  
Yongyu Guo
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Indirect Effect ◽  
Political Trust ◽  
Negative Association ◽  
Trust In Government ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Authoritarian Personality ◽  
Chinese Sample ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic

Although the health and economic risks of COVID-19 may differ for higher- and lower-socioeconomic-status (SES) populations, some studies found that people with lower SES do not necessarily experience more psychological panic. In this research, we examine how SES is related with psychological panic during the COVID-19 pandemic using a large nationwide Chinese sample. Participants were 933 adults (mean age = 30.04, SD = 8.19) who completed an online questionnaire between 11 and 12 February 2020. Lower SES individuals have higher trust in government and thus experience less psychological panic, and the indirect effect of this trust suppresses the direct negative association between SES and psychological panic. In addition to this difference in trust in government between lower- and higher-status individuals, the indirect effect of the trust only exists among people with low (not high) authoritarian personalities. This study provides evidence that political trust may serve as a buffer, suppressing the negative association between SES and psychological panic; thus, policies and actions enhancing political trust are vital to support the mental health of individuals with lower SES during the pandemic, especially for citizens with low authoritarian personalities.

The Politics of Scientific Knowledge

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Suhay
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Political Values ◽  
The Public ◽  
Historical Role ◽  
Understanding Of Science ◽  
Key Terms ◽  
Personal Interests

This article discusses the various ways in which political concerns among government officials, scientists, journalists, and the public influence the production, communication, and reception of scientific knowledge. In so doing, the article covers a wide variety of topics, mainly with a focus on the U.S. context. The article begins by defining key terms under discussion and explaining why science is so susceptible to political influence. The article then proceeds to discuss: the government’s current and historical role as a funder, manager, and consumer of scientific knowledge; how the personal interests and ideologies of scientists can influence their research; the susceptibility of scientific communication to politicization and the concomitant political impact on audiences; the role of the public’s political values, identities, and interests in their understanding of science; and, finally, the role of the public, mainly through interest groups and think tanks, in shaping the production and public discussion of scientific knowledge. While the article’s primary goal is to provide an empirical description of these influences, a secondary, normative, goal is to clarify when political values and interests are or are not appropriate influences on the creation and dissemination of scientific knowledge in a democratic context.

scholarly journals Support for insider parties: The role of political trust in a longitudinal-comparative perspective

2020 ◽  
pp. 135406882097692
Author(s):  
Constanza Sanhueza Petrarca ◽  
Heiko Giebler ◽  
Bernhard Weßels
Keyword(s):  
Cross Section ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Political Trust ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Institutional Trust ◽  
Window Of Opportunity ◽  
Aggregate Level ◽  
Electoral Support ◽  
Electoral Performance

European democracies have experienced drastic changes in electoral competition. Voter support for insider parties that have traditionally governed has declined while support for radical and populist parties has increased. Simultaneously, citizens’ declining political trust has become a concern, as confidence in political institutions and actors is low across numerous countries. Interestingly, the linkage between political trust and support for insider parties has not been empirically established but deduced from the fact that outsider parties are often supported by dissatisfied citizens. We address this gap adopting both an institutional- and an actor-centered approach by investigating whether trust in parliaments and in parties is associated with the electoral performance of insider parties on the aggregate level. Combining different data sources in a novel way, we apply time-series cross-section models to a dataset containing 30 countries and 137 elections from 1998 to 2018. Our results show that when political trust is low, particularly institutional trust, insider parties receive less electoral support. Hence, we provide empirical evidence that decreasing levels of political trust are the downfall of insider parties, thereby opening a window of opportunity for challenging outsider parties.

scholarly journals Preserving the socio-cultural traditions of rural areas in the social practices of youth

2020 ◽  
Vol 210 ◽  
pp. 14005
Author(s):  
Valentina Rodionova ◽  
Lyudmila Shvatchkina ◽  
Galina Mogilevskaya ◽  
Vyacheslav Bilovus ◽  
Valentina Ivashova
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Traditional Values ◽  
Rural Settlements ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
The Social

The article presents the results of a study of the process of preserving the socio-cultural traditions of rural areas in the social practices of young people. The relevance of issues of social reproduction of traditional culture in the actions of the younger generation is important for the preservation of the identity of local and regional communities. It is a kind of counterbalance to blurring the boundaries of belonging to a social, national, and confessional group. Maintaining adherence to traditional values, lifestyle and the choice of rural settlements by young people for living, it ultimately opposes the processes of rural areas depopulation and ensures their sustainable development.

scholarly journals Social Networking Sites, Personalization, and Trust in Government: Empirical Evidence for a Mediation Model

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 205630512091388
Author(s):  
Christopher Starke ◽  
Frank Marcinkowski ◽  
Florian Wintterlin
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Political Trust ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
Trust In Government ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Well Counter ◽  
Personalization Of Politics

Political communication via social media might well counter the eroding political trust. In particular, social networking sites (SNS) enable direct flows of communication between citizens and the political elite, thereby reducing social and political gaps. Based on the concept of personalization of politics, we argue that interactions with politicians on SNS affect trust in government through a two-step process: First, interactions on SNS make citizens evaluate politicians’ characters more favorably. Second, these evaluations serve as cues for the citizens to develop or withdraw trust in government. We test indirect effects using four character traits as mediators: leadership, benevolence, responsiveness, and likeability. A representative online survey ( n = 1117; in Germany) reveals that interactions with politicians on SNS increase the perceived likeability of candidates, and thus also trust in government. However, they do not affect the evaluation of the other traits: leadership, benevolence, and responsiveness.

scholarly journals Repairing Political Trust for Practical Sustainability

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (17) ◽  
pp. 7055
Author(s):  
Robert Weymouth ◽  
Janette Hartz-Karp ◽  
Dora Marinova
Keyword(s):  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Political Trust ◽  
Western World ◽  
Trust In Government ◽  
Show Evidence ◽  
Relationship Of

High levels of trust in government are important in addressing complex issues, including the realization of the mainstream sustainability agenda. However, trust in government has been declining for decades across the western world, undermining legitimacy and hampering policy implementation and planning for long-term sustainability. We hypothesize that an important factor in this decline is citizen disappointment with the current types of public participation in governance and that this could be reversed through a change from informing/consulting to a relationship of partnership. Using case studies from Western Australia, the paper investigates whether an intervention targeted at establishing a partnership relationship through mini-public, deliberative, participatory budgeting would improve trust and help the implementation of sustainability. These results show evidence of improvements in trust and provide conceptual and practical tools for government administrations wishing to close the detrimental trust gap that may hamper the implementation of a sustainability agenda.

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