差序政府信任与政治体制支持

Hierarchical Trust and Regime Support in China

在调查数据基础上,实证研究了差序政府信任、反差序政府信任以及两类无差序政府信任是如何影响公民对现有政治体制的支持水平的。研究发现,对现有政治体制支持水平最高的是无差序政府信任(央地皆信)者,其次是差序政府信任者,再次是反差序政府信任者,最后是无差序政府信任(央地皆不信)者。研究认为差序政府信任作为一种策略,有效地阻滞了合法性危机的上移,保护了政治核心部门和政治体制的合法性。

Based on the data of the national survey conducted in 2011, this study explores how four types of political trust （hierarchical trust, paradoxical trust, equal trust, equal distrust） affect people＇s regime support. The result reveals that the equal trust holders are the most active to become regime supporters, followed by the hierarchical trust holders, and then the paradoxical trust holders, and the equal distrust holders come to the last. I then argue that as a strategy the hierarchical trust successfully block legitimacy crisis transmit from grassroots to the high-level government, and it also protect the legitimacy of political regime.