Parsing the Effect of the Internet on Regime Support in China

Tang, Min; Huhe, Narisong

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“…their political institutions. The linkage between these two trends has aroused extensive attention from academic circles (e.g., Tang and Huhe, 2018). Globally, longitudinal surveys of peoples' online behavior on a global scale are hard to come by Nisbet et al (2012: 260), making it difficult to uncover the mechanisms between Internet use and political attitudes or behavior that may operate across individual countries.…”

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“…At the same time, democracies and non-democracies alike face ever-decreasing levels of public trust in their political institutions. The linkage between these two trends has aroused extensive attention from academic circles (e.g., Tang and Huhe, 2018). Globally, longitudinal surveys of peoples' online behavior on a global scale are hard to come by Nisbet et al .…”

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The Internet, political trust, and regime types: a cross-national and multilevel analysis

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Wang

2019

Japanese Journal of Political Science

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The Internet has played important roles in driving political changes around the world. Why does it help to topple political regimes in some places but improve the quality of governance in others? We found Internet usage in general leads to citizens’ distrust in political institutions. Different political environments, however, can condition such trust-eroding impacts of the Internet in significantly different ways. A democracy enables citizens to connect their online behaviors and offline expression and organization, releasing political discontent while facilitating state–society communication. On the contrary, by restricting various forms of off-line expression, authoritarian regimes drive Internet-active citizens' discontent and distrust to higher levels. We use the World Values Survey data to establish these different mechanisms across democracies and authoritarian systems. Entropy balancing shows our findings to be highly robust.

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The Internet, political trust, and regime types: a cross-national and multilevel analysis

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Wang

2019

Japanese Journal of Political Science

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“…Freedom of speech is not equally valued across the globe. In some countries the state controls access to the internet and therefore is able to censor content and control the flow of information (Tang & Huhe, 2020).…”

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E-Exchange, Social Responsibility and Virtual Organizations: From C2c Systems to Social Networks

2020

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The internet revolution gave rise to a number of new business models such as electronically enabled B2C (Business to Consumer), B2B (Business to Business), C2C (Consumer to Consumer) and P2P (Peer to Peer). These new 'e-exchange' models were essentially virtual organizations. They were without the legal entities and hierarchical governance structures associated with traditional organizations, but are they exempt from the social responsibilities? These forms developed rapidly and enormous strides were made in information exchange and social media, creating more new forms of virtual organization. The structure and governance of internet-facilitated virtual organizations have grown to be ever more complex. Expectations and mechanisms of meeting social responsibilities have also evolved, however they did so in a fragmented way. In this paper we use stakeholder and path dependence theories as lenses to track the progress and examine the current state of economic, legal, ethical and discretionary social responsibility efforts across the user-participation eexchange spectrum.

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“…Vitriolic and satirical comments about political institutions and policiesand sometimes even sensitive issuesare also tolerated and ubiquitously seen in China's cyberspace, insofar as they are not implicating top national leaders. 10 Would the absence of absolute controls over social media help erode the basis of regime stability? In this article, we argue that this is not necessarily the case.…”

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Social media, fear, and support for state surveillance: The case of China’s social credit system

Zeng¹,

Wong

2022

China Information

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Even in authoritarian regimes that enforce vigorous information controls, netizens are still able to access fairly diverse – sometimes even sensitive – information from social media than from traditional media. We argue that this ‘breathing space’ in social media may have an indirect positive effect on regime stability via a subtle emotional channel; exposure to news on social media heightens one’s generalized fear, which in turn increases one’s demand for social controls by the state. We test our argument using an original survey that evaluates public support for China’s social credit system. We find that the support for this seemingly all-encompassing surveillance system is positively correlated with one’s generalized fear, while one’s generalized fear is positively correlated with one’s exposure to news on WeChat, the most popular social media platform in China.

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Parsing the Effect of the Internet on Regime Support in China

Abstract: Abstract:Although the Internet is severely censored in China, the negative reporting and critical deliberations of political institutions and policy issues, especially those low-profile ones, have been abundant in the cyberspace. Given such a mixed pattern of online information, this

Cited by 8 publications

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The Internet, political trust, and regime types: a cross-national and multilevel analysis

The Internet, political trust, and regime types: a cross-national and multilevel analysis

E-Exchange, Social Responsibility and Virtual Organizations: From C2c Systems to Social Networks

Social media, fear, and support for state surveillance: The case of China’s social credit system

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