民族多样性与社区邻里信任--基于中国西部社会经济变迁调查的实证研究

Ethnic Diversity and Community Neighborhood Trust:An Empirical Analysis Based on CSSC 2010

不同于已有研究从宏观的国家、省市层面的民族结构特征或微观的个体民族身份背景来讨论民族与信任的关系,本文提出从中观的社区层面,通过构建民族多样性指数来探究社区空间内的民族构成特征对邻里信任的影响。基于中国西部社会经济变迁调查数据,使用多层次混合效应线性回归模型,本文发现:整体来看,随着民族多样性增加,社区邻里信任表现出先降低后升高的U形变化模式。这一发现不同于已有研究所认为的线性变化模式。具体到不同民族大类,就汉族、维吾尔等族、满蒙等族、南方各族而言,其所在社区的民族多样性特征对邻里信任水平的作用效应也存在差别。我国民族多样性对邻里信任的多元影响模式,可为基层社区的民族关系治理提供有益的政策启示。

Unlike existing studies that discuss the relationship between ethnicity and trust at the macro level of national,provincial,and municipal ethnic structure characteristics or the micro level of individual ethnic identity background,this paper proposes an empirical strategy to investigate the relationship between ethnic composition characteristics and neighborhood trust in a specific regional space from the middle range of community,by using ethnic diversity indicators.The study adopts a multilevel mixed-effects linear regression model based on the 2010 China Survey of Social Change.We find that neighborhood trust shows a U-shaped pattern of decreasing and then increasing as ethnic diversity increases,which is different from the linear pattern considered in previous studies.Specifically,for Han,Uyghur,Manchu-Mongol,and Southern eth-nic groups,although the U-shaped pattern between ethnic diversity and neighborhood trust was also observed,the effect of diversity index characteristics on the level of neighborhood trust differed.The multiple patterns of ethnic diversity effects on neighborhood trust provide helpful policy insights for ethnic relations governance in grassroots communities.