Values of deference to authority in Japan and China

Zhai, Yida

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“…The average score of believing the superiority of China's political system was 6.36 on a seven-point scale in Study 2, indicating a favorable evaluation. Among various reasons for the high approval of China's political system, authoritarian political culture is predominant (Shi, 2014;Zhai, 2017Zhai, , 2018. The Chinese government also has launched a propaganda campaign to stress that China's political system has an advantage in handling the COVID-19 crisis.…”

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Social dominance orientation, right‐wing authoritarianism, and political attitudes toward governmental performance during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Zhai

Chong

Liu

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Anal Soc Iss & Public Policy

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This research examined the association of social dominance orientation (SDO) and right‐wing authoritarianism (RWA) with the evaluations of the government's anti‐coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) policies and performance. In Study 1 (N = 261), we found that SDO and RWA were positively associated with resistance to criticism about the government's anti‐COVID‐19 measures. In addition, SDO was positively associated with favorable evaluations of the government's performance in handling the crisis. Support for lockdown policies mediated these attitudes. In Study 2 (N = 438), the results show that SDO and RWA had indirect associations with beliefs in the superiority of China's political system through three mediation variables. Evaluations of the US government's performance in handling the COVID‐19 pandemic were negatively associated with beliefs in the superiority of China's political system, and there was a negative relationship between evaluations of the Chinese and US governments’ performances.

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Social dominance orientation, right‐wing authoritarianism, and political attitudes toward governmental performance during the COVID‐19 pandemic

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Chong

Liu

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“…Lu and Shi (2015) state that the Chinese government has taken advantage of China’s regulated education and media systems, as well as its lingering Confucian and Leninist traditions, to promote the guardianship discourse. These values strengthen political deference in China (Zhai, 2017c). Clearly, the illiberal conceptions of democracy help disguise the Chinese government’s authoritarian nature and increase the likelihood of its political survival (Lu and Shi, 2015).…”

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Popular conceptions of democracy and democratic satisfaction in China

Zhai

2018

International Political Science Review

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Evaluating attitudes to democracy in an authoritarian political system is complex. Several surveys suggest that the majority of Chinese people feel satisfied with the level of democracy in China. In explaining this intellectual puzzle, this study addresses how different understandings of democracy influence satisfaction with the state of democracy. This study also investigates the relationships between liberal democratic values and popular conceptions of democracy, and between liberal democratic values and satisfaction with democracy. The results show that Chinese citizens who view elections and political rights as essential to democracy are dissatisfied with the current state of democracy. People who hold liberal democratic values are also dissatisfied with the current state of democracy. In other words, popular conceptions of democracy make a difference in the people’s satisfaction with the democratic level in China. With a rise in the population adhering to procedural conceptions of democracy, satisfaction with the level of democracy in China may decline in the future.

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“…Xunzi further postulates that the only way to maintain political authority is to define and obey social hierarchies (Peng and Tang 2019 : 60). Interestingly, contemporary studies of Chinese political culture continue to find evidence about the prevalence of authoritarian orientations among the Chinese public (e.g., Neher 1994 ; Ackerly 2005 ; Park and Shin 2006; Dalton and Ong 2006 ; Chu 2013 ; Zhai 2017 ). For example, Nathan and Shi ( 1993 ) analyze cultural values in China and find that the majority of Chinese respondents have strong orientations towards authority and hierarchy.…”

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Revisiting Chinese Political Culture: The Historical Politics Approach

Yan

2022

Chin. Polit. Sci. Rev.

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Western Political science cannot adequately address China’s development in the twenty-first century. The inadequacy is due to a general neglect of historical methods and an obsession with progressive views in the discipline. As a result, the study of China’s political culture is torn away from Chinese history and loses itself to become another version of modernization thesis. This article calls for the application of a historical politics approach and a poly-chronic view of history to the study of China’s political culture. The article examines four potential core value components of China’s political culture, namely the quest for great unification, the preference for political order, the orientation towards substance, and the deference to authority and hierarchy. Results show that those values have historical continuity and China-specificity thereby demonstrating the value of the historical politics perspective.

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Values of deference to authority in Japan and China

Cited by 45 publications

References 67 publications

Social dominance orientation, right‐wing authoritarianism, and political attitudes toward governmental performance during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Social dominance orientation, right‐wing authoritarianism, and political attitudes toward governmental performance during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Popular conceptions of democracy and democratic satisfaction in China

Revisiting Chinese Political Culture: The Historical Politics Approach

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