A Rural-Urban Divide? Reassessing Voting in Chinese Villagers’ Committee and Residents’ Committee Elections

Tzeng, Wei-Feng

doi:10.1007/s11366-020-09688-2

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“…In fact, familism is still the most basic social structure and behavior in rural China (Albanesi et al, 2012) Influenced by traditional Confucianism, traditional Chinese fertility culture is mainly characterized by "raising children for retirement safeguard," "more sons for more blessings," and "sons are most valuable." In China, India and other countries, male offspring take the main responsibility for parental security such as old age support, and male offspring can provide additional status to the family (Henn and Foard, 2014;Tzeng, 2020). Therefore, there may be some differences between the family status and social status of the peasant group of male offspring.…”

Section: Class Identity and Rural Governance Of Peasants With Differe...mentioning

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RETRACTED: A Study on the Participation of Peasants in Rural Environmental Improvement From the Perspective of Sustainable Development

Lin

Bi-zhen

et al. 2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Peasants are producers and the direct stakeholders of rural environmental problems, and also the core subject of the comprehensive rural ecological improvement. However, in the current mode of rural environmental governance, the government takes the dominant role, with low participation of peasants. Based on the representative micro-survey data of China, and from the perspective of the psychosocial effects of the peasants’ self-identification, this research made use of instrumental variables and generalized structural equation mode (GSEM) to explore the reason behand this phenomenon. The research shows that, first, at present Chinese peasants have a low degree of self-identification, and self-identification has a remarkable and positive stimulating effect on the participation of peasants in rural ecological improvement; second, heterogeneity analysis shows that self-identification is a stronger incentive for peasant groups with female offspring and rural families with relatively higher incomes in the participation of rural environmental improvement, and is a less remarkable incentive for rural families with relatively low incomes; and third, the mediation model results indicate that social fairness and social capital are important mediating paths with which self-identification influences the participation of peasants in rural environmental improvement, and the exertion of the stimulating effect of self-identification on the participation in rural environmental improvement is inseparable from the coordination and integration of the perception effect of peasants as the behavioral subject in terms of social fairness, and is still more inseparable from the support of corresponding social capital. What we’ve discovered means that the enhancement of self-identification of peasants by strengthening the construction of public cultural services and cultural guidance in rural area is the crucial element to motivate the peasants to participate in rural environmental improvement so as to realize sustainable rural development.

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RETRACTED: A Study on the Participation of Peasants in Rural Environmental Improvement From the Perspective of Sustainable Development

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Bi-zhen

et al. 2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…Each urban neighborhood in China contains a residents' committee ( ju wei hui ) run by paid staff, which functions as a link between residents and the municipal authorities ( Read, 2003 ). In rural China, villagers elect their leaders for villagers' committees ( cun wei hui ), and rural committees carry out important functions to control and redistribute local resources ( Tzeng, 2020 ). Responses for each item were recoded as 0 for never and 1 for having received.…”

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Role of neighborhood social support in stress coping and psychological wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Hubei, China

2021

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The COVID-19 pandemic that emerged in Wuhan, the capital city of Hubei province in China, has caused severe health problems and imposed a tremendous psychological impact on the public. This study investigated the risk and protective factors associated with psychological distress among Hubei residents during the peak of the outbreak. Data were obtained from a combined online and telephone survey of 1,682 respondents. Various COVID-19-related stressors, including risk exposure, limited medical treatment access, inadequate basic supplies, reduced income, excessive exposure to COVID-19-related information, and perceived discrimination, were associated with psychological distress. Neighborhood social support can reduce psychological distress and buffer the effect of COVID-19-related stressors, whereas support from friends/relatives affected stress coping limitedly. Interventions to reduce stressors and promote neighborhood support are vital to reduce psychological distress during infectious disease outbreaks.

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“…Notably, while grassroots elections are regularly held in China, significant differences exist between rural and urban elections (Chen and Yao, 2005; Gui et al ., 2006; Xiong, 2008; Tzeng, 2020). Generally speaking, research brought out the facts that rural residents show a higher interest in taking part in VC elections than their counterparts in urban areas in residents' committee (RC) elections since rural residents have larger stakes in elections than urbanites as VCs, according to the Organic Law of Villagers Committee, are entitled to distribute local financial resources and manage the villages' collective assets while residents committees in urban areas are not given equivalent power (Gui et al ., 2006).…”

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The ballot or the bullet? Public awareness of grassroots elections and regime stability in China

Tzeng

2022

Japanese Journal of Political Science

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This study examines the attitudinal and behavioral consequences of holding local elections in China. Using survey data to test the propositions that elections do not alleviate pressure from society butreasonably make state–society conflict manageable for the Chinese Communist regime, evidence suggests that being aware of elections is negatively associated with citizens' involvement in collective activities that would destabilize the regime. Instead, the awareness of elections is positively correlated with people's willingness to use the institutionalized mechanism, letters and visits (shangfang), to solve their concerns. The findings imply that although elections may help buttress China's authoritarian rule, the survivability of the Chinese Communist Party is still dependent on whether existing institutions can function well in reducing public grievances.

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A Rural-Urban Divide? Reassessing Voting in Chinese Villagers’ Committee and Residents’ Committee Elections

Cited by 9 publications

References 54 publications

RETRACTED: A Study on the Participation of Peasants in Rural Environmental Improvement From the Perspective of Sustainable Development

RETRACTED: A Study on the Participation of Peasants in Rural Environmental Improvement From the Perspective of Sustainable Development

Role of neighborhood social support in stress coping and psychological wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Hubei, China

The ballot or the bullet? Public awareness of grassroots elections and regime stability in China

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