中国网民的政治价值观与网络抗争行为的限度

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China's market transition has brought changes on people's political values as well as individual behaviors in political participation. Internet itself does not necessarily lead to political participation due to many constraints,which contains people's political values. Taking the data from a nationwide random sample,this study examines the relationship between Netizens'political values and their participation in online protests. Their basic political orientation is identified in two groups of "authoritarian" and "liberal democratic". Two areas of online protests——criticism of government officials or policies and discussion of political collective actions are looked into to compare these two groups. Generalized propensity score matching is applied to predict the dose-response function and average treatment effect of the two types of political values on online protests. We find that the liberal oriented Netizens generally have much more online protest engagements than their counterpart. However,interestingly,when one's liberal-democratic value score reaches to a certain high level,such a correlation disappears. Instead,there is a significant decrease in protest engagements among high scorers. Our tentative explanation for this threshold effect is that,similar to the "diminishing marginal utility" phenomenon in economics,political values'motivational function possibly lessens overtime. High scores can also be an indication of changes in other conventional elements in political participation such as decrease of political efficacy. Therefore,in addition to the government control and agenda-setting,personal political values influence people's political participation and constitue an internal constraint on online protests.

Key words: online protest, generalized propensity score matching, authoritarian values, liberal-democratic values

JI Chengyuan, WANG Heng, GU Xin. Political Values of Chinese Netizens and Limitation of Online Protests[J]. Chinese Journal of Sociology, 2016, 36(5): 64-87.

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