东亚社会中的公民政治参与

Political Participation in East Asia

政治参与是政治过程的重要内容,对治理的质量、公众对政体的合法性的感知等具有重要意义。政治参与的种类很多,影响政治参与的因素也很复杂。本文利用涵盖东亚11个国家和地区的跨国(地区)调查数据,对选举类和联系类政治参与行为进行系统分析。本文比较了不同的政体环境内政治参与行为的差异,并对影响政治参与的经济社会因素和政治文化因素等进行回归模型分析,试图进一步推动形成不同的社会经济背景、制度环境、政治文化如何影响政治参与和一般意义上的政治行为的一些实证理论。

Political participation constitutes a critical component of political process,which affects the quality of governance,public perception of regime legitimacy,and many other aspects of a regime.Political participation presents itself in various forms,along with the underlying factors that may cause participation in the first place.By using a cross-national(regional) data set,this paper systematically examines two types of political participation(electoral and communicational)in 11 East Asian societies including China,Korea,Japan,Indonesia,Thailand,and others.Specifically,this paper looks into how the participation process differs in different political settings,and also examines the effects of societal and political-cultural factors in regression analyses.Furthermore,it attempts to generalize the effects of such broader-and systematic-level factors(societal,economic,institutional,and political culture),and provides empirical evidences for political behaviors in a more general term.