Popular support for grassroots self-government in urban China - Findings from a Beijing survey

被引:20
作者
Chen, Jie [1 ]
Lu, Chunlong
Yang, Yiyin
机构
[1] Old Dominion Univ, Dept Polit Sci, Norfolk, VA 23529 USA
[2] Old Dominion Univ, Grad Program Int Studies, Norfolk, VA 23529 USA
[3] Chinese Acad Social Sci, Inst Sociol, Beijing, Peoples R China
来源
MODERN CHINA | 2007年 / 33卷 / 04期
关键词
Chinese politics; urban grassroots self-government; mass political support; public opinion;
D O I
10.1177/0097700407303966
中图分类号
K9 [地理];
学科分类号
0705 ;
摘要
Since the post-Mao reforms began, the Chinese central government has made efforts to revitalize the grassroots self-government system in urban areas in order to cope with the resulting sociopolitical changes. In 2000 the government stepped up its efforts by changing the old Residential Committee (jumin weiyuanhui, or RC) to the new Community Residents' Committee (shequ jumin weiyuanhui, or CRC) and by giving the latter more autonomy. Survey data that the authors collected in the urban areas of Beijing in 2004 indicate that most of their respondents supported the new CRCs and the current self-government system as a whole. Moreover, the authors found that urban residents' subjective orientation s-such as their assessment of existing CRCs' performance, belief in democratic principles, sense of political efficacy, and life satisfaction-significantly influenced their support for the system; the type of housing complex was a sociopolitical contextual factor that also helped shape their support. These findings have important political implications for the future viability of the urban self-government system.
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页码:505 / 528
页数:24
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