| Summary/Abstract |
This article explores the process and causes of the emerging consciousness of citizens’ rights in China. Using data from a nationally representative survey on the current state of fairness and justice in China in 2014, it presents an empirical study on the features of the generational variation of Chinese citizens’ emerging rights consciousness as well as the factors that contribute to the variation. Previous research has attributed the rise of citizens’ rights consciousness in China to democratization and political liberalization. In the absence of full democracy in China, however, findings from this article demonstrate that the forces of marketization can directly lead to the awakening of the rights consciousness among Chinese citizens. The article also finds that China’s urbanization process has promoted the generational variation of the citizens’ rights consciousness.
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