Poltical trust in China / Lianjiang Li

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Li, Lianjiang.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--Politics and government--2002-.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2025.

Summary:

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 claim. How much do Chinese actually trust the one-party regime? Political Trust in China addresses the question of whether or not Chinese citizens have trust in their government, particularly because the surveys suggest they overwhelmingly do but the data is considered untrustworthy by some scholars. Instead of fully distrusting survey results, Li examines the contexts through which Chinese citizens are compelled to say they trust the government. Li argues that the larger issues in Chinese citizens' trust in the government are of a recent nature and relate more to the autocratic turn the party has taken in the last decade, thereby breeding mistrust that Li theorizes will cause conflict in the event of power changing hands.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-472-90509-0

OCLC:

1509408980