Who Participates in Collective Petitions in Rural China?
Who Participates in Collective Petitions in Rural China?
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谁参与中国农村的集体上访？
DOI：
10.1007/s11366-012-9201-7
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2012
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J. Chen
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J. Chen
本文探讨了为什么在中国集体上访所带来的风险阻止了一些村民参与而不是其他人。本文通过对原始数据的统计分析和对一个个案的民族志研究发现，较高的家庭收入是增加村民参与集体上访概率的唯一显著因素。经济安全赋予农民政治参与权力。与现有文献相反，复员军人并没有显著增加村民参与集体请愿的概率。这一发现意味着，如果中国家庭平均收入继续增长，上访作为中国政治中的一种“有管理的参与”形式可能会面临越来越多的挑战。
This article examines the question of why the risks posed by collective petitioning in China deter some villagers from participating but not others. Based on the statistical analysis of an original dataset and an ethnographic study of one case, this article finds that higher household income is the only significant factor that increases a villager’s probability to participate in collective petitions. Economic security empowers a peasant’s political participation. Contrary to the existing literature, being a demobilized soldier does not significantly increase a villager’s probability to participate in collective petitions. The implication of this finding is that petitioning as a form of “managed participation” in Chinese politics may face more and more challenges if the average Chinese household income continues to grow.