Determinants of Public Support for the Social Credit System Among Chinese Citizens

• In Event: Public Opinion with Authoritarian Influences

Brief Overview

We explore the determinants of public support for the social credit system (SCS) in China by using survey experiments. Both awareness of the types of information collected and the potential political impact of the SCS change support for the system.

Authors

• Ping Xu, University of Rhode Island

• Fan Liang, Assistant professor