“分化的后权威主义”——转型期中国社会的政治价值观及其变迁分析

“Divided Post-Authoritarianism”:An Analysis of the Political Value and Its Evolution in China's Transitional Society

本文通过世界价值观调查(1990—2007)和中国综合社会调查(2010)的数据,围绕着政体偏好、政府偏好、政治重要性、政府信任度和政治顺从这五个维度,分析了改革开放以来中国人政治价值观的基本模式及其变迁趋势,发现中国人存在较为一致的、因此是主导性的政治价值观,这种价值观的基本特征是偏好、信任并顺从权威政府,但强调政府以人的自由与发展为导向,可称之为"分化的后权威主义"。在过去二十多年里,虽然中国社会经历了时代变革和世代更替,但中国人的政治价值观并没有经历整体性的变迁,这种政治价值观为中国社会的转型提供了支持。

Based on the data drawn from the World Value Survey(1990-2007)and the China General Social Survey(2010),this paper examines the basic pattern and the trend of Chinese political value in the reform era,with special reference to the following five dimensions:regime preference,government preference,importance of politics,governmental credibility,and political obedience.The main findings of this paper include:1)Chinese people share similar political preferences,which means that there is a domineering political value among Chinese people;2)this domineering political value is characterized by preferring,trusting and obeying an authoritarian regime yet expecting it to allow freedom and development for individuals,a value that may be called'divided post-authoritarianism';3)although transformations and transitions have taken place over the past 20 years,the political value of Chinese people does not experience systematic change accordingly;4)the political value in discussion will continue to provide support for China's social transition.