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| Critical citizens and discontented citizens: Education, perceptions of fairness, and support for anti-COVID measures in China | |
Jinjin Liu1; Yingzhu Pu2 ; Tony Huiquan Zhang2 
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| 2025-01 | |
| Source Publication | Political Psychology
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| ISSN | 1467-9221 |
| Pages | 1-17 |
| Abstract | How and why people support or disapprove of governmental responses to public crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, is an important issue in public opinion research. Since 2020, China's strict anti-COVID policy has protected lives but faced resistance. Drawing on Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) 2021 data, we investigated the covariates associated with the support for the anti-COVID measures in China, arguing that “critical citizens” (measured by university-level education) and “discontented citizens” (measured by perceptions of fairness) were more likely to disapprove of the anti-pandemic measures, and political trust would moderate the association. The findings showed that less educated and more satisfied citizens supported the government measures no matter what, whereas educated and discontented citizens showed conditional support—only when they had high political trust. These findings suggest reasons for the backlash to China's zero-COVID policy and have broader implications for political trust and public opinion research. |
| Keyword | Public Opinion China Studies Political Trust |
| DOI | 10.1111/pops.13079 |
| URL | View the original |
| Indexed By | SSCI |
| Language | 英語English |
| Funding Project | Religious Diversity, Majority-Minority Status, and Outgroup Tolerance |
| WOS Research Area | Political Sociology |
| Publisher | Wiley |
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| Document Type | Journal article |
| Collection | Faculty of Social Sciences DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY |
| Corresponding Author | Tony Huiquan Zhang |
| Affiliation | 1.Shandong Academy of Governance 2.University of Macau |
| Corresponding Author Affilication | University of Macau |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Jinjin Liu,Yingzhu Pu,Tony Huiquan Zhang. Critical citizens and discontented citizens: Education, perceptions of fairness, and support for anti-COVID measures in China[J]. Political Psychology, 2025, 1-17. |
| APA | Jinjin Liu., Yingzhu Pu., & Tony Huiquan Zhang (2025). Critical citizens and discontented citizens: Education, perceptions of fairness, and support for anti-COVID measures in China. Political Psychology, 1-17. |
| MLA | Jinjin Liu,et al."Critical citizens and discontented citizens: Education, perceptions of fairness, and support for anti-COVID measures in China".Political Psychology (2025):1-17. |
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