收入差距、社会公平感与差序政府信任

Income Gap,Sense of Social Fairness and Hierarchical Government Trust

重塑民众的政府信任已成为当前政府工作的重大课题。采用2010年中国综合社会调查数据,分析收入差距与社会公平感对差序政府信任的影响发现:第一,收入差距的扩大降低了民众的政府信任水平,且对基层政府信任水平的负向影响更大;第二,社会公平感提高了民众的政府信任水平,且对基层政府信任水平的提升作用更明显;第三,社会公平感在收入差距和政府信任的关系中具有调节效应和中介效应。调节效应表明,随着社会公平感的增强,收入差距对政府信任的负向作用会削弱;中介效应表明,社会公平感能够弱化收入差距对政府信任的负向影响。因此,重塑政府信任的关键在于缩小收入差距与提高社会公平感。

Reshaping government trust of the public is a major project of current government work. Using the data of 2010 Chinese General Social Survey, this paper analyzes the impact of income gap and sense of social fairness on hierarchical government trust. The study finds that: firstly, with the deterioration of income gap, the level of government trust reduces, and the negative impact on local government trust is greater;secondly, the sense of social fairness improves the level of government trust, and the positive impact on local government trust is greater;thirdly,the sense of social fairness has both moderating and mediating effect on the relationship between income gap and government trust. The moderating effect shows that the higher the sense of social fairness, the less negative impact of income gap on government trust. The mediating effect shows that the sense of social fairness can weaken the negative impact of income gap on government trust. So, the key to reshaping government trust is narrowing income gap and improve the sense of social fairness.