Does Food Safety Risk Perception Affect the Public's Trust in Their Government? An Empirical Study on a National Survey in China
Does Food Safety Risk Perception Affect the Public's Trust in Their Government? An Empirical Study on a National Survey in China
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食品安全风险认知是否会影响公众对政府的信任？
DOI：
10.3390/ijerph16111874
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发表时间：
2019-06-01
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通讯作者：
Yan, Simin
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作者：
Han, Guanghua;Yan, Simin
本文研究了食品安全风险感知对政府信任不同维度的影响。以食品安全风险感知、经济增长、反腐败、社会信任、政治参与和人口特征为解释变量，在多维度分析政府信任（能力、仁爱和诚信）的基础上，构建logistic回归模型。主要发现是，食品风险认知水平低、政治参与度高、对经济增长和反腐败绩效评价积极的受访者对政府能力、仁慈和诚实的信任度较高。社会信任存在溢出效应，对政府能力和仁慈有显著影响，但对政府诚实没有显著影响，这反映了公众对政府信任的不同维度之间的差异。高学历人群对政府能力的信任水平较低，对政府仁政的信任水平较高，对政府廉洁的判断无显著影响。总体而言，公众对食品安全的地位评价较低，对政治参与的兴趣有限。政府应加强食品安全监管，发展社会资本，进一步增强公众对政府的信任。
This paper studies the impacts of food safety risk perception on the different dimensions of governmental trust. A logistic regression model was constructed based on the multidimensional analysis of government trust (i.e., competence, benevolence and honesty) with food safety risk perception, economic growth, combating corruption, social trust, political participation and demographic characteristics as explanatory variables. The main findings are that respondents with low levels of food risk perception, high political participation and a positive evaluation of economic growth and anti-corruption performance show high levels of trust in government competence, benevolence and honesty. Social trust has a spillover effect, which has a significant impact on government competence and benevolence but has no significant impact on the honesty of the government, which reflects the distinction between different dimensions of the public's trust in their government. Highly educated people have low levels of trust in government competence, high levels of trust in government benevolence, and no significant impact on the judgment of government honesty. In general, the public speak lowly of the status of food safety and have limited interest in political participation. The government is better to strengthen food safety supervision and develop social capital to further enhance the public's governmental trust.