Political Trust in China
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Publisher:The University of Michigan Press
Published:22nd Jul '25
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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.
"Li examines complex questions about people's relationships with their government. This book is an excellent tool for political science professors and researchers in a time of pervasive political distrust and growing concern over manipulated information."
* Emma Schindler-Wood, Library Journal *“Political Trust in China provides an objective analysis of Beijing's claims that the majority of Chinese trust that country's one-party regime. Summing up: Recommended. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals.”
* S. C. Hart, Choice *“This research will be of broad interest to China scholars in political science and sociology, as well as to researchers of authoritarianism who are working on the dictator's dilemma, which stems from the incapacity of dictators to finetune repression and concessions due to their underlying uncertainty about the level of popular trust they might have.”
* Martin K. Dimitrov, The China QuarterISBN: 9780472057528
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172 pages