Unpublished Paper
How Citizens Order Their Political Mind: Contemporary Ideology in China
Southern Political Science Association Annual Conference (San Juan, Puerto Rico), January 9-11
(2020)
Abstract
This study tests whether Chinese citizens have a consistent ideological orientation across multiple and related political and policy issues. Using a representative online survey, we find relatively weak evidence that Chinese citizens have a consistent ideological orientation towards general and specific issue questions. These findings suggest that authoritarian regimes such as China may have different operations in play when it comes to ideological orientations; and more broadly, partially disconfirms received academic wisdom that general issue orientation is a universal trait across jurisdictions.
Keywords
- ideology,
- political and policy preferences,
- citizens,
- China
Disciplines
Publication Date
2020
Citation Information
MacDonald, A. and Hasmath, R. (2020) “How Citizens Order Their Political Mind: Contemporary Ideology in China”, Paper Presented at Southern Political Science Association Annual Conference (San Juan, Puerto Rico), January 9-11.