Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science

政治参与是政治学学者最感兴趣的话题。谁参与，他们如何参与，以及为什么参与，一直是美国政治行为研究中占据中心位置的问题。尽管人们对美国人的政治参与感兴趣，但在全国范围内进行的调查相对较少。这项博士论文研究项目承诺通过对中华人民共和国中国的政治参与进行全国性的调查来解决这一不足。本次研究的样本宇宙包括大陆中国18岁及以上的非制度化人口总数，居住在新疆和西藏的人口除外。采访将由社会调查研究所的专业采访者和北京大学的学生进行面对面的采访。调查将评估中国的政治参与方式和水平，以及社会经济地位、机构隶属、政治历史和政治态度对政治行为的影响。这项研究是在西德尼·韦尔巴等人为20世纪60年代末S所做的关于美国政治参与的经典研究开发的理论框架内进行的。艾尔调查将研究旨在影响政府决策过程的政治参与模式，并将探索人们可能在政策执行阶段施加影响的其他模式。来自中国的数据将与之前从其他国家收集的数据进行比较，并将作为了解中华人民共和国中国政治参与的重要依据。

Participation in politics is a topic of fundamental interest to scholars in political science. Who particpates, how they participate, and why, have always been questions that occupy a central place in the study of American political behavior. Despite the interest in the political participation of Americans, relatively few investigations have been conducted cross nationally. This Doctoral Dissertation Research Project promises to attend to this deficiency by undertaking a nationwide survey of political participation in the People's Republic of China. The universe sampled for this study includes the total non- institutionalized population of mainland China who are eighteen years or older, except those who live in Sinjiang and Tibet. The interviews will be conducted face-to-face by professional interviewers from the Institute of Social Survey and by students from Beijing University. The investigation will assess the modes and levels of political participation in China and the impacts of socioeconomic status, institutional affiliation, political history and political attitude on political behavior. The study is cast within the theoretical framework developed for the classic study of American political participation undertaken in the late l960's by Sidney Verba, et. al. The investigation will examine the modes of political participation aimed at influencing the decision-making process of the government and will also explore additional modes which people may use to cast influence at the policy implementation stage. The data from China will be compared with data previously gathered from other countries and will serve as an important basis for understanding political participation in the People's Republic of China.