International Knowledge and Domestic Evaluations in a Changing Society: The Case of China
International Knowledge and Domestic Evaluations in a Changing Society: The Case of China
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DOI：
10.1017/s000305541500026x
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发表时间：
2015-08-01
影响因子：
6.8
通讯作者：
Huang, Haifeng
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作者：
Huang, Haifeng
对外国的了解和信息是否会影响人们对国内情况的评价？本研究利用独特的调查和实验数据发现，对外国社会经济状况有更积极看法，特别是高估的中国公民对中国和中国政府的负面评价更多。此外，纠正有关外国的社会经济错误信息可以改善人们对中国的评价，这表明因果方向至少部分是从对外国状况的乐观估计到国内评价的降低。国内评价与国际政治知识之间的关系，以熟悉外国政治事务和人物为衡量标准，通常并不重要，尽管意识到其他国家的政治不稳定可以提高对自己国家的满意度。这些结果在实质上和概念上都为政治相关知识和信息的研究做出了贡献，并为不断变化的社会中信息流动和舆论形成的细微差别提供了新的见解。
Do knowledge and information about foreign countries affect people's evaluation of domestic situations? Using unique survey and experimental data, this research finds that Chinese citizens with more positive perceptions and especially overestimation of foreign socioeconomic conditions have more negative evaluations of China and the Chinese government. Moreover, correcting socioeconomic misinformation about foreign countries improves one's evaluations of China, indicating that the causal direction is at least partly from rosier estimation of foreign conditions to lower domestic evaluations. The relationship between domestic evaluations and international political knowledge, as measured by familiarity with political affairs and figures in foreign countries, is typically not significant, although awareness of political instability in other countries can increase satisfaction with one's own country. These results contribute both substantively and conceptually to the study of politically relevant knowledge and information, and shed new light on the nuances of information flow and opinion formation in changing societies.