The impact of grassroot democracy on hierarchical government trust in rural China

• In Event: Regime Support, Trust, and Legitimacy in China

Brief Overview

Using a two-wave household survey data in rural China, we find that the use of democratic rule in decision-making process can improve villagers’ trust for town and county cadres, whereas its impact on trust towards village cadres is not significant.

Authors

• Xing Chen, Fudan University

• Jintao Xu, Peking University

• Yuanyuan Yi, Peking University

• Andong Zhuge, Fudan University