Guanxi Networking, Associational Involvement, and Political Trust in Contemporary China

Chen, Yunsong; He, Guangye; Li, Shuanglong

doi:10.1080/10670564.2019.1705002

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“…A similar result can be affirmed by Chen et al. (2020), where formal social ties are found to foster political trust. However, readers may note that this article also directs us to the more nuanced distinctions between formal and informal ties, where the latter, also named guanxi (Bian, 2019), shows a negative effect on political trust 3 .…”

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“…The populist authoritarianism model proposed by Tang (2016), for example, reveals a significant effect on regime support of social trust embedded in various communal activities. A similar result can be affirmed by Chen et al (2020), where formal social ties are found to foster political trust. However, readers may note that this article also directs us to the more nuanced distinctions between formal and informal ties, where the latter, also named guanxi (Bian, 2019), shows a negative effect on political trust.…”

Section: Social Trust As Regime Stabilizer: Contextualizing the Trust-trust Association In Authoritarian Societiessupporting

confidence: 61%

“…Studies directly addressing the political implications of guanxi are rare. In addition toChen et al (2020), there is only one early organizational study that shows the negative effect of guanxi practices on the trust in management(Chen et al, 2004).4 Many unpopular policies are implemented by local governments even though these policies are designed by the central government in the first place. Also, local governments have more practical considerations and they sometimes have to compromise policy implementation, which could harm their perceived trustworthiness(Li, 2004).5 Specifically, local clerks and officials are often described to have little interest in the stability of the overall regime and are thus more likely to be susceptible to the weaknesses of corruption and abuse of power(Li, 2016).6 A routine method is to compute the gradient and then, regress the estimated gradient on the covariates.…”

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“…In addition to Chen et al. (2020), there is only one early organizational study that shows the negative effect of guanxi practices on the trust in management (Chen et al, 2004).…”

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Outward specific trust in the balancing of hierarchical government trust: Evidence from mainland China

2020

British Journal of Sociology

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This study elaborates the link between social trust and government trust by investigating how the extent of outwardness in one's specific trusting relation, as coalescence of trust strength and radius, relates to the varying trust in governments of different administrative levels. Using survey data collected in China, a country featured by the hierarchical government trust and differential mode of interpersonal association, we show that, in both urban and rural areas, the outward orientation of interpersonal trust is positively associated with the trust in the subnational governments, while being independent from the confidence in the central government, suggesting a less hierarchical and more balanced attitude toward government trust. One's generalized trust fails to show such a pattern. This study illustrates a handy measure that combines trust radius and trust strength and highlights the relevance of specific trust for political attitudes in an authoritarian regime. K E Y W O R D Shierarchical government trust, interpersonal trust, social capital, outward orientation | INTRODUC TI ON"The political" and "the social" have always been connected (Lipset, 1963). Since "effective government rests not just on the consent of the governed … but also on the ability of citizens to rub along together with a degree of | 775 HU mutual understanding" (Newton et al., 2018, p. 37), government trust and social trust should be connected (detailed conceptual clarifications are presented in online Appendix A). In the current literatures, the trust-trust association has been affirmed in many established democracies at both the aggregate (e.g.

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Outward specific trust in the balancing of hierarchical government trust: Evidence from mainland China

2020

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“…Fourth, community engagement is key to a successful cultural adaptation as well as intervention implementation ( 47 ). Studies show that association involvement, as formal social ties, contributes to political trust and social trust among the participants in China ( 48 ). In this current study, we worked with the biggest local NGO that serves Chinese students.…”

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The Cultural Adaptation of Step-by-Step: An Intervention to Address Depression Among Chinese Young Adults

Sit¹,

Ling

Lam

et al. 2020

Front. Psychiatry

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Background Digital mental health interventions leverage digital communication technology to address the mental health needs of populations. Culturally adapting interventions can lead to a successful, scalable mental health intervention implementation, and cultural adaptation of digital mental health interventions is a critical component to implementing interventions at scale within contexts where mental health services are not well supported. Objective The study aims to describe the cultural adaptation of a digital mental health intervention Step-by-Step in order to address depression among Chinese young adults. Methods Cultural adaptation was carried out in four phases following Ecological Validity Model: (1) stage setting and expert consultation; (2) preliminary content adaptation; (3) iterative content adaptation with community members; (4) finalized adaptation with community feedback meetings. Cognitive interviewing was applied to probe for relevance, acceptability, comprehensibility, and completeness of illustrations and text. Six mental health experts and 34 Chinese young adults were recruited for key informant interviews and focus group discussions. Results We adapted the text and illustrations to fit the culture among Chinese young adults. Eight elements of the intervention were chosen as the targets of cultural adaptation (e.g., language, metaphors, content). Samples of major adaptations included: adding scenarios related to university life ( relevance ), changing leading characters from a physician to a peer and a cartoon ( acceptability ), incorporating two language versions (traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese) in the intervention ( comprehensibility ), and maintaining fundamental therapeutic components ( completeness ). Conclusion This study showed the utility of using Ecological Validity Model and a four-point procedure framework for cultural adaptation and achieved a culturally appropriate version of the Step-by-Step program for Chinese young adults.

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Instrumental Guanxi Culture and Inbound Urban Migration in China: A Prefecture-level Analysis Using Online Search Data

Fu,

Liu,

et al. 2024

The China Quarterly

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The socioeconomic role of guanxi networks among individuals has been widely recorded, yet macro-level analysis has been sparse in empirical research. This research fills that gap by presenting the first nationally representative evidence illustrating the connection between regional guanxi culture and population mobility among cities in China, with a particular focus on instrumental guanxi culture. To quantify guanxi culture, we employ online search indices related to gift giving, a measure which is challenging to capture through traditional survey data. Applying matched prefecture-level data spanning from 2011 to 2019, the panel model reveals a strong negative correlation between a city's instrumental guanxi culture and inbound migration, while sentimental guanxi culture exhibits a positive correlation with inbound mobility. This research not only adds to the existing theories by exploring the macro-level effects of both instrumental and sentimental guanxi practices but also introduces an innovative method for quantifying guanxi culture through big data analysis.

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Guanxi Networking, Associational Involvement, and Political Trust in Contemporary China

Cited by 14 publications

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Outward specific trust in the balancing of hierarchical government trust: Evidence from mainland China

Outward specific trust in the balancing of hierarchical government trust: Evidence from mainland China

The Cultural Adaptation of Step-by-Step: An Intervention to Address Depression Among Chinese Young Adults

Instrumental Guanxi Culture and Inbound Urban Migration in China: A Prefecture-level Analysis Using Online Search Data

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