Fairness Perception, Political Trust and Civic Engagement
In this paper, we seek to explain: 1) How does the degree of political trust affect citizen participation? 2) Does fair perception play a moderating role in the relationship between political trust and civic participation? We use the data of Chinese Democratic Barometer Survey in 2015 to investigate the above problems. Picking two types of political trust—organizational trust and institutional trust as independent variables, we explore the relationships between them and civic engagement: electoral participation, political contact and non-electoral participation. Our results show that: 1) The higher the degree of institutional trust, the higher the enthusiasm of citizen participation, except the violence activities, but the degree of the trust of court is negative related to civic engagement. 2) Fairness perception is significantly related to political trust, and the perception of fairness will further strengthen the influence of political trust on citizen participation. Whats more, we also found that the higher the income, the lower the degree of civic engagement, and in our society, men, older in age and more educated people would like to participate in political activities more frequently.
Fairness perception Political trust Civic engagement
LEI Xu-chuan YU Lin-xing
School of Public Affairs and Law, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu,P.R.China, 610031
国际会议
加纳
英文
34-44
2017-11-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）