The Internet, political trust, and regime types: a cross-national and multilevel analysis

被引:22
作者
You, Yu [1 ]
Wang, Zhengxu [2 ]
机构
[1] Chongqing Univ, Sch Publ Affairs, Chongqing, Peoples R China
[2] Fudan Univ, Sch Int Relat & Publ Affairs, Fudan, Peoples R China
关键词
Critical citizens; democratization; institutional trust; Internet use; political expression; SOCIAL MEDIA; CIVIL-SOCIETY; E-GOVERNMENT; SUPPORT; PARTICIPATION; SATISFACTION; TECHNOLOGY; CITIZENS; LIFE;
D O I
10.1017/S1468109919000203
中图分类号
D0 [政治学、政治理论];
学科分类号
0302 ; 030201 ;
摘要
The Internet has played important roles in driving political changes around the world. Why does it help to topple political regimes in some places but improve the quality of governance in others? We found Internet usage in general leads to citizens' distrust in political institutions. Different political environments, however, can condition such trust-eroding impacts of the Internet in significantly different ways. A democracy enables citizens to connect their online behaviors and offline expression and organization, releasing political discontent while facilitating state-society communication. On the contrary, by restricting various forms of off-line expression, authoritarian regimes drive Internet-active citizens' discontent and distrust to higher levels. We use the World Values Survey data to establish these different mechanisms across democracies and authoritarian systems. Entropy balancing shows our findings to be highly robust.
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页码:68 / 89
页数:22
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