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ID169791
Title ProperTo Serve the People
Other Title InformationIncome, Region and Citizen Attitudes towards Governance in China (2003–2016)
LanguageENG
AuthorTuriel, Jesse
Summary / Abstract (Note)Through use of a unique, multi-year public opinion survey, this paper seeks to measure changes in self-reported governmental satisfaction among Chinese citizens between 2003 and 2016. Despite the persistence of vast socio-economic and regional inequalities, we find evidence that low-income citizens and residents living in China's less-developed inland provinces have actually reported comparatively greater increases in satisfaction since 2003. These results, which we term the “income effect” and “region effect” respectively, are more pronounced at the county and township levels of government, which are most responsible for public service provision. Our findings also show that the satisfaction gap between privileged and more marginalized populations in China is beginning to close, in large part owing to efforts by the Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping administrations to rebalance the gains of economic growth and shift resources towards the populations most overlooked during China's first few decades of reform.
`In' analytical NoteChina Quarterly , No.240; Dec 2019: p.906-935
Journal SourceChina Quarterly No 240
Key WordsPublic Opinion ;  China ;  Governance ;  Legitimacy ;  Public goods ;  Satisfaction ;  Survey ;  Public Services


 
 
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