Enhancing life satisfaction by government accountability in China
Enhancing life satisfaction by government accountability in China
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DOI：
10.1007/s11205-006-9043-9
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发表时间：
2007-07-01
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Leung, Kwan-Kwok
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作者：
Cheung, Chau-Kiu;Leung, Kwan-Kwok
寻找民主的基本原理不仅需要概念性的任务，还需要实证研究。理由之一是民主通过让每个人都满意来最大化人民的幸福。对此的进一步限制是，民主最大限度地减少了弱势群体的遗憾。这与政府保护理论相一致，政府保护理论认为政府是为了保护弱者。这些论点引发了这样的假设：政府责任感提高了公民的生活满意度，尤其是那些无权无势的人。这些假设得到了本研究的支持，该研究调查了中国北京的 732 名居民。因此，包括减少腐败和不平等以及增加宽容和民主在内的政府问责制对所有经济、文化和政治方面的生活满意度都有显着影响。此外，对于教育程度和职业地位较低且在政府以外工作的人来说，这种影响更大。这些发现证明了合法化政策通过加强中国政府问责或民主所产生的有益效果。
Finding the rationale for democracy requires not merely a conceptual task but also an empirical study. One rationale is that democracy maximizes people's happiness by satisfying everyone. A further qualification of this is that democracy minimizes the maximum regret of the disadvantaged. This is compatible with the protection theory of government, which states that the government serves to protect the powerless. These arguments lead to hypotheses that perceived government accountability enhances the life satisfaction of the citizen, especially the powerless one. The hypotheses attain support from the present study, which surveyed 732 inhabitants in Beijing, China. Accordingly, government accountability including reducing corruption and inequality and increasing tolerance and democracy showed significant effects on life satisfaction in all economic, cultural, and political aspects. Furthermore, the effects are stronger on one with lower education and occupational status, and working outside the government. These findings demonstrate the salutary effect of the legitimation policy by enhancing government accountability or democracy in China.