One country, three populations: Trust in police among migrants, villagers, and urbanites in China

Sun, Ivan Y.; Hu, Rong; Wong, Donald; He, Xuesong; Li, Jessica C. M.

doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2013.08.002

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“…The probable reason for this, according to them, is that South Africa is a gravely divided society struck with high levels of crime, which causes severe concerns for citizens. Similar results were found in the case of China, where outcome-based considerations showed a significant effect on the level trust in the police as opposed to procedural-based considerations, the influence of which could hardly be detected (Sun et al 2013). However, this result may not be too surprising because in an undemocratic regime like in China, procedural fairness may also become less relevant for trust.…”

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Procedural fairness and the legitimacy of laws in Hungary: An empirical analysis

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Medve-Bálint

2015

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In the 2010 general elections in Hungary, the socialist-liberal government was ousted and Fidesz, a conservative party, secured a constitutional (two-third) majority in the Parliament. Using its comfortable majority, Fidesz started a series of large-scale institutional reforms, including the adoption of a new constitution. Several policy and institutional areas were also fundamentally reformed, such as the system of social benefits, the rules and institutions of local governance, the educational system, the media authority, and the electoral system -just to name a few.However, the legitimacy of these hasty reforms is far from being obvious. The paper follows the approach of Tom Tyler and others who argue that perceptions of procedural fairness are crucial in the formation of legitimacy beliefs. Tyler also argues that people do not obey the law and assist in implementing policies because they fear the sanctions or hope for rewards. Rather, they put trust in these mechanisms and institutions, because people think that they are legitimate. That is, legitimacy spurs law-abiding behaviour and makes policy implementation easier, which is a requirement for effective policy making.Our assumption is that the way reforms have been adopted in Hungary has violated a number of basic procedural fairness norms, like those of voice and participation. We also assume that Hungarians are just as sensitive to procedural fairness as Americans or Western Europeans are. Therefore, we would expect discontent among the Hungarian population in terms of procedural fairness, and, as a consequence, falling trust in, and legitimacy of, state policies and institutions. Survey data seems to confirm our hypotheses. Through our own survey research, we demonstrate that the perception of procedural unfairness is related to uncooperative attitudes towards policies and institutions, which decrease their effectiveness. The paper, therefore, aims at establishing 1 The paper is partly based on research founded under the FP7 research project "FIDUCIA -New European Crimes and Trust-based Policy".

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Procedural fairness and the legitimacy of laws in Hungary: An empirical analysis

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Medve-Bálint

2015

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“…First, data that could be used to construct some relevant predictors were not available in the CGSS, and these variables thus were omitted from the analysis. For instance, recent research has found that expressive concerns (e.g., neighborhood cohesion and quality of life) and instrumental concerns (e.g., victimization and fear of crime) are predictive of public perceptions of police trustworthiness in China (e.g., Sun et al., ; Sun, Wu, and Hu, ). Similarly, personal and vicarious contact experiences with the police could affect people's attitudes toward the police (Lundman and Kaufman, ; Weitzer and Tuch, ).…”

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“…We tested the impact of both perceived political influence and actual political engagement on public trust in the police. Even though research on Chinese perceptions of the police has been burgeoning over the past several years (e.g., Cao and Hou, ; Lai, Cao, and Zhao, ; Michelson and Reed, ; Sun, Hu, and Wu, ; Sun et al., ; Sun, Wu, and Hu, ; Wu, ; Wu and Sun, , ), none of it has assessed the linkage between political attitudes and participation and public assessments of the police (see Sun, Hu, and Wu, for an exception). This omission is problematic because important concepts, such as political efficacy, can play a prominent role in research not only on issues of political behavior and socialization (Easton and Dennis, ; Hahn, ), but also on public opinions on political institutions, including the police.…”

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Chinese Trust in the Police: The Impact of Political Efficacy and Participation

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2015

Social Science Quarterly

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Objective We assessed the influences of political efficacy and political participation on public perceptions of police trustworthiness in China. Methods Drawing upon approximately 10,000 cases collected by the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS), we used multivariate regression to assess the impact of two types of political efficacy, internal efficacy and external efficacy, and three forms of political participation, engaging in community affairs, grassroots election, and rightful resistance, on public trust in the police, controlling for demographics and social trust and justice. Results We found that external efficacy and grassroots election are positively related to trust in the police, whereas internal efficacy and rightful resistance are negatively associated with such trust. Background characteristics, such as gender, ethnicity, age, education, and household registration, and social trust and justice variables are also predictive of Chinese perceptions of police trustworthiness. Conclusion Political efficacy and participation mattered in influencing trust in the police. The Chinese government should continue its political reforms by allowing greater public participation in the selection of political representatives and the decision‐making process of public policy.

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“…However, in the past few years, there are a growing number of literatures regarding public opinion towards the police in China (Cao and Hou 2001;Lai et al 2010;Wu and Ivan 2009;Sun et al 2012Sun et al , 2013a. Despite that existing researches relate the influence of political participation on the trust of police, studies on police trust have not been touched upon from the perspective of political participation and political efficacy.…”

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The impact of Chinese political efficacy and political participation on their trust in the police

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J. Chin. Sociol.

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In English literature, the study of the public's evaluation of the police has been increasing in the past 10 years. Although the existing literature has talked about the influence of political participation on the trust of the police, it has not been studied from the perspective of political efficacy and political participation of the police. Based on the data of the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) 2010, this paper studies the influence of the Chinese people's political efficacy and political participation on the police trust. General ordered logic model shows the following:(1) external efficacy increases police trust greatly while internal efficacy reduce police trust; (2) although public resistance reduces police trust, participation in grassroots election increases police trust to certain extent.

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One country, three populations: Trust in police among migrants, villagers, and urbanites in China

Cited by 70 publications

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Procedural fairness and the legitimacy of laws in Hungary: An empirical analysis

Procedural fairness and the legitimacy of laws in Hungary: An empirical analysis

Chinese Trust in the Police: The Impact of Political Efficacy and Participation

The impact of Chinese political efficacy and political participation on their trust in the police

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