China's Age Cohorts: Differences in Political Attitudes and Behavior*

Harmel, Robert; Yeh, Yao‐Yuan

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“…In the meantime, older generations are clearly more dependent on the state now, and can be expected to feel and act accordingly. 12 Following procedures detailed in Harmel and Yeh (2015), each respondent is assigned to one and only one of the five age cohorts.…”

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“…We adopt the approach developed by Harmel and Yeh (), who identified five distinct generations among today's Chinese adults for their earlier study of the role of “generations” in attitudinal differences in China. With the underlying assumption that the age range of deepest socialization is 10–17 years of age, the five generations are detailed in Table .…”

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“…The nationwide sample was drawn using GPS/GIS‐assisted area sampling. For more details on the sampling, see Harmel and Yeh ().…”

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“…Following procedures detailed in Harmel and Yeh (), each respondent is assigned to one and only one of the five age cohorts.…”

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Age Versus Socialization in Understanding Attitudes Toward Economic Reforms in China

Harmel¹,

Yeh

Liu³

2019

Social Science Quarterly

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Objective The objective of this research is to address the roles of age and socialization in explanation for attitudes toward economic reforms in China. Method Using data from the China Survey 2008 and the China Governance and Policy Survey of 2016, this note reports age/cohort‐related differences in both abstract and concrete attitudes toward economic reforms, and addresses two competing (or complementary) explanations for those differences, one attributing differences to life cycle and the other attributing differences to the different environments within which Chinese adults were socialized. Results While socialization/generation explanations seem to apply for the more abstract “market reform would bring chaos” attitudes, an age/life‐cycle explanation alone seems sufficient to explain attitudes toward the more concrete subject of “privatization.” Conclusion Consistent with our literature‐based theoretical expectations, “life cycle” tends to explain more concrete attitudes while “socialization”—in early and/or lifelong forms—is a more potent explanation for abstract attitudes.

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Age Versus Socialization in Understanding Attitudes Toward Economic Reforms in China

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Liu³

2019

Social Science Quarterly

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“…While comparatively politically stable, the marketization period has been marked by rapid social and economic change, growing affluence, the advent of the internet and China's "opening" to the world. These experiences are credited with the one-child generation's higher tolerance for risk, an open attitude to change, as well as higher acceptance of lifestyle and value differences(Harmel and Yeh 2015;Yi, Ribbens and Morgan 2010).16 The China Quarterly, pp.1-26 of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741020000569 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core.…”

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Economic Legitimation in a New Era: Public Attitudes to State Ownership and Market Regulation in China

Eaton

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2020

The China Quarterly

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Autocrats typically seek public support on the basis of economic growth-promotion and redistribution policies, and China is no exception. As important as these factors are for authoritarian resilience, we argue that economic legitimation is a more complex phenomenon than has previously been acknowledged. Beyond improvements in material well-being, citizens form judgements about the state's effectiveness in carrying out a variety of economic roles beyond growth promotion and they also care about the fairness of these market interventions. In this study, we use original survey data collected in late 2015 and early 2016 to evaluate Chinese citizens’ perceptions of two economic roles of the state that have been hotly debated in recent years: state ownership and market regulation. We find that while citizens view the ideas of state ownership and interventionist regulation in a generally positive light, suggesting a broad level of agreement in Chinese society about what economic functions the state ought to perform, perceptions of how the state actually carries out these roles are more mixed. Our results show that the urban young are especially inclined to critical evaluations, raising the question of how the Chinese Communist Party's legitimation strategy will fare under conditions of inter-generational value change.

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Comparing Political and Economic Attitudes: A Generational Analysis

Junisbai

2019

Kazakhstan and the Soviet Legacy

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China's Age Cohorts: Differences in Political Attitudes and Behavior*

Cited by 17 publications

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Age Versus Socialization in Understanding Attitudes Toward Economic Reforms in China

Age Versus Socialization in Understanding Attitudes Toward Economic Reforms in China

Economic Legitimation in a New Era: Public Attitudes to State Ownership and Market Regulation in China

Comparing Political and Economic Attitudes: A Generational Analysis

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