Political Trust in China
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The authoritarian regime in China is a prime target of the US-led war on autocracy; however, the regime claims a majority of the Chinese people trust the government, with national surveys since the 1990s supporting this assertion. How much do Chinese citizens actually trust the one-party regime? Instead of dismissing survey results, Li examines the contexts in which Chinese citizens are predisposed to say they trust the government. He argues that political trust in China is a power-accommodating and nonbinding hope rather than a rights-based and binding expectation as Chinese citizens do not have the right to grant and retract trust through free and fair elections.
Keywords
trust, interpersonal trust, political trust, trust in government, China, the Center, central leadership, supreme leader, democracy, constitutional democracy, authoritarianism, one-party rule, regime support, popular election, multiparty system, trust in commitment, trust in capacity, unidimensional measurement, two-dimensional measurement, k-means clustering, typology, phenomenology, hermeneuticsDOI
10.3998/mpub.12394984ISBN
9780472905096, 9780472077526, 9780472057528Publisher
University of Michigan PressPublisher website
https://www.press.umich.edu/Publication date and place
2025Classification
Politics and government
Political structures: democracy